Hi All, I am new to HiveMQ and my team is using HiveMQ with MQTT protocol for a project. In that we are using hivemq-kafka extension to get the data from hivemq to Kafka. Currently I am facing an issue with respect to the Serialization of Kafka metrices in the Broker logs. I could see in the issue …

Hi @Nirmal , Nice to see you interested in HiveMQ and MQTT sphere, please welcome to our community! What is HiveMQ version that you are using? You can find the exact version if you check your hivemq.log file. Kind regards, Dasha from HiveMQ team

Hi @Daria_H , Currently I am using HiveMQ version 4.5. Regards, Nirmal

Thanks @Daria_H for the above update. May I know when is HiveMQ version 4.5 will have end of life? Regards, Nirmal

Sure, @Nirmal , it is HiveMQ 4.5 (End of life: 12-01-2023)

@Daria_H , the major doubt that I have with respect to this issue that I am not sure where this Maximum Allowed bytes are configured with. The exception states that 5242880 is the maximum allowed bytes. But I am not able to find where they are defined. Also I checked with the MAX_PACKET_SIZE value wh…

Serialization of kafka metrics failed

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Daria_H August 24, 2022, 3:12pm 4

Thanks @Nirmal , you need to upgrade your HiveMQ version, please refer to the same topic here:Error in log - Serialization of Kafka metrics?

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Serialization of kafka metrics failed

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