jaegertracing/jaeger

Enhance Kafka exporter to respect max message size

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#6,439 opened on Dec 29, 2024

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Description

This is a copy of the upstream issue https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/issues/36982 that we encountered, creating a ticket here to track and for better discoverability.

Problem is described here: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger/pull/6437#issuecomment-2564811186

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Research direction
Investigate the Kafka exporter configuration and implement a max message size parameter, following the upstream issue and PR comment.
Tech stack
go
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
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Active
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Mostly clear
Prerequisites
Go
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
50