Introduction

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

Prerequisites

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

Use Cases

• 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.

Parameters

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