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Status

Current state: Under Discussion

Discussion thread: here

JIRA:

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• Performance Benchmark: Measure replication throughput and latency across WAN.
• Scalability Test: Replicate 1000 topics with 100,000 partitions across clusters.
• Failover Test: Simulate source cluster failure, measure consumer recovery time.
• Long-Running Stability: Run continuous replication for 7 days, verify no memory leaks or performance degradation.
• Security Validation: Test all authentication mechanisms (SASL PLAIN, SCRAM, Kerberos, mTLS) via kafka-mirrors.sh config files.

Rejected Alternatives

Keep Using MirrorMaker 2

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This KIP introduces native cluster mirroring to address the limitations of MirrorMaker 2 described in the motivation section.

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