Kafka Connect: is it possible to manage connectors state?

[mirisu2]

Hi,
Is it possible to manage connectors state? For example, a connector went into FAIL state. And, as I can see, operator doesn't restart a connector. A connector stays in fail state.

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaConnect
metadata:
  annotations:
    strimzi.io/use-connector-resources: "true"

What can I do in this case?

[scholzj]

You can restart the connectors or their tasks using an annotation: https://strimzi.io/docs/operators/latest/full/deploying.html#proc-manual-restart-connector-str ... if you want, you can also do it using the Connect REST API directly.

The operator currently does not restart anything automatically. While such feature is considered and might be added i the future, with hundreds of different connectors, the operator has no chance to know which error might be recovered from with restart and which might need for example configuration change. So it is not something what solves all issues.