Authorisation Error Now

: Make sure your JAAS config (username/password/SSL) is correct, as authorization can't happen if the broker doesn't know who you are.

Does this sound like the kind of feature you had in mind, or

: Instead of a generic error, the feature would log the specific Principal (user) and Resource (topic) that failed, making it much faster for your DevOps team to fix the ACLs (Access Control Lists) . Authorisation Error

While I can't build the code directly into your app, I can suggest a high-level feature design for a "Smart Authorization Guard" that would help your system handle these errors automatically. Feature Proposal: Smart Authorization Guard

It sounds like you're looking for a new to handle Authorisation Errors when a Producer tries to send data to a Kafka topic. : Make sure your JAAS config (username/password/SSL) is

: Ensure your Service Account has the WRITE operation allowed on the Topic resource.

: Before a message is sent, the client checks if the user has Write permissions for that topic. Feature Proposal: Smart Authorization Guard It sounds like

: Set your authorizer logs to DEBUG in your broker's log4j.properties to see exactly which user is being denied.