--- title: Understanding and Avoiding CommitFailedException in Kafka description: CommitFailedException in Kafka consumers occurs when a consumer is removed from its group due to exceeding the MAX_POLL_INTERVAL_MS timeout before polling... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/understanding-and-avoiding-commitfailedexception-in-kafka-5g3zp4iwo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Understanding and Avoiding CommitFailedException in Kafka | daily.dev og:description: CommitFailedException in Kafka consumers occurs when a consumer is removed from its group due to exceeding the MAX_POLL_INTERVAL_MS timeout before polling... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/understanding-and-avoiding-commitfailedexception-in-kafka-5g3zp4iwo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5g3zp4iwO.png og:image:alt: Understanding and Avoiding CommitFailedException in Kafka og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Understanding and Avoiding CommitFailedException in Kafka **[Baeldung](https://daily.dev/sources/baeldung)** · 10 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary CommitFailedException in Kafka consumers occurs when a consumer is removed from its group due to exceeding the MAX_POLL_INTERVAL_MS timeout before polling again. This happens when record processing takes longer than the configured poll interval, causing the group coordinator to reassign partitions. Two main solutions are covered: tuning MAX_POLL_INTERVAL_MS and MAX_POLL_RECORDS_CONFIG to give more time for processing, and switching to asynchronous processing using virtual threads with per-partition offset tracking. The async approach uses CompletableFuture, a ConcurrentHashMap for tracking committable offsets, and a ConsumerRebalanceListener to safely commit in-flight offsets during rebalances. Best practices include implementing idempotency and using a Dead Letter Queue for failed messages. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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