Storm KafkaSpout stopped to consume messages from Kafka Topic
My problem is that Storm KafkaSpout stopped to consume messages from Kafka topic after a period of time. When debug is enabled in storm, I get the log file like this: 2016-07-05 03:58:26.097 o.a.s.d.task [INFO] Emitting: packet_spout __metrics [#object[org.apache.storm.metric.api.IMetricsConsumer$TaskInfo 0x2c35b34f "org.apache.storm.metric.api.IMetricsConsumer$TaskInfo@2c35b34f"] [#object[org.apache.storm.metric.api.IMetricsConsumer$DataPoint 0x798f1e35 "[__ack-count = {default=0}]"] #object[org.apache.storm.metric.api.IMetricsConsumer$DataPoint 0x230867ec "[__sendqueue = {sojourn_time_ms=0.0