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Status

Current state: Under DiscussionDiscarded as this is a bug fix so a KIP is not needed

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JIRA: KAFKA-6123

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The client.id configuration is not a required configuration as KafkaConsumer and KafkaProducer will auto automatically generate client ids if not user configured (producer-1…, consumer-1…). These auto generated client ids are not passed to the MetricsReporter, which makes it difficult to track and map clients that have not specified the client id configuration.

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