Deny Access

Attack

New

Deny access for a user used by a consumer group and regarding a certain topic.

Deny access for a user used by a consumer group and regarding a certain topic.

Attack

Attack

New

Deny access for a user used by a consumer group and regarding a certain topic.

Deny access for a user used by a consumer group and regarding a certain topic.

Attack

The action "Alter Max Bytes Per Message" within the experiment editor.

Introduction

With this action, Steadybit can deny access to a topic for one or many consumer groups on all kafka hosts.

Based on Kafka ACL, so the security must be activated on kafka.

Block a consumer of reading a topic and consuming message to see how the consumer deal with authorizations issues.
Can also be used to do a Delete Records action while the consumer is block to simulate a loss of records and see how the consumer reacts.

Parameter	Description	Default
Duration	The duration of the attack.	60s
User	The user that will be affected by the Kafka ACL and be blocked during the attack
User	The topic to deny access that will be in the Kafka ACL