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Capturing discarded batches for a self-managed Apache Kafka event source

To retain records of failed event source mapping invocations, add a destination to your function's event source mapping. Each record sent to the destination is a JSON document with metadata about the failed invocation. You can configure any Amazon SNS topic, Amazon SQS queue, or S3 bucket as a destination. Your execution role must have permissions for the destination:

Additionally, if you configured a KMS key on your destination, Lambda needs the following permissions depending on the destination type:

Configuring on-failure destinations for an self-managed Apache Kafka event source mapping

To configure an on-failure destination using the console, follow these steps:

You can also configure an on-failure destination using the Amazon CLI. For example, the following create-event-source-mapping command adds an event source mapping with an SQS on-failure destination to MyFunction:

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping \
--function-name "MyFunction" \
--event-source-arn arn:aws-cn:kafka:us-east-1:123456789012:cluster/vpc-2priv-2pub/751d2973-a626-431c-9d4e-d7975eb44dd7-2 \
--destination-config '{"OnFailure": {"Destination": "arn:aws:sqs:us-east-1:123456789012:dest-queue"}}'

The following update-event-source-mapping command adds an S3 on-failure destination to the event source associated with the input uuid:

aws lambda update-event-source-mapping \
--uuid f89f8514-cdd9-4602-9e1f-01a5b77d449b \
--destination-config '{"OnFailure": {"Destination": "arn:aws:s3:::dest-bucket"}}'

To remove a destination, supply an empty string as the argument to the destination-config parameter:

aws lambda update-event-source-mapping \
--uuid f89f8514-cdd9-4602-9e1f-01a5b77d449b \
--destination-config '{"OnFailure": {"Destination": ""}}'

SNS and SQS example invocation record

The following example shows what Lambda sends to an SNS topic or SQS queue destination for a failed Kafka event source invocation. Each of the keys under recordsInfo contains both the Kafka topic and partition, separated by a hyphen. For example, for the key "Topic-0", Topic is the Kafka topic, and 0 is the partition. For each topic and partition, you can use the offsets and timestamp data to find the original invocation records.

{
    "requestContext": {
        "requestId": "316aa6d0-8154-xmpl-9af7-85d5f4a6bc81",
        "functionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:myfunction",
        "condition": "RetryAttemptsExhausted" | "MaximumPayloadSizeExceeded",
        "approximateInvokeCount": 1
    },
    "responseContext": { // null if record is MaximumPayloadSizeExceeded
        "statusCode": 200,
        "executedVersion": "$LATEST",
        "functionError": "Unhandled"
    },
    "version": "1.0",
    "timestamp": "2019-11-14T00:38:06.021Z",
    "KafkaBatchInfo": {
        "batchSize": 500,
        "eventSourceArn": "arn:aws-cn:kafka:us-east-1:123456789012:cluster/vpc-2priv-2pub/751d2973-a626-431c-9d4e-d7975eb44dd7-2",
        "bootstrapServers": "...",
        "payloadSize": 2039086, // In bytes
        "recordsInfo": {
            "Topic-0": {
                "firstRecordOffset": "49601189658422359378836298521827638475320189012309704722",
                "lastRecordOffset": "49601189658422359378836298522902373528957594348623495186",
                "firstRecordTimestamp": "2019-11-14T00:38:04.835Z",
                "lastRecordTimestamp": "2019-11-14T00:38:05.580Z",
            },
            "Topic-1": {
                "firstRecordOffset": "49601189658422359378836298521827638475320189012309704722",
                "lastRecordOffset": "49601189658422359378836298522902373528957594348623495186",
                "firstRecordTimestamp": "2019-11-14T00:38:04.835Z",
                "lastRecordTimestamp": "2019-11-14T00:38:05.580Z",
            }
        }
    }
}

S3 destination example invocation record

For S3 destinations, Lambda sends the entire invocation record along with the metadata to the destination. The following example shows that Lambda sends to an S3 bucket destination for a failed Kafka event source invocation. In addition to all of the fields from the previous example for SQS and SNS destinations, the payload field contains the original invocation record as an escaped JSON string.

{
    "requestContext": {
        "requestId": "316aa6d0-8154-xmpl-9af7-85d5f4a6bc81",
        "functionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:myfunction",
        "condition": "RetryAttemptsExhausted" | "MaximumPayloadSizeExceeded",
        "approximateInvokeCount": 1
    },
    "responseContext": { // null if record is MaximumPayloadSizeExceeded
        "statusCode": 200,
        "executedVersion": "$LATEST",
        "functionError": "Unhandled"
    },
    "version": "1.0",
    "timestamp": "2019-11-14T00:38:06.021Z",
    "KafkaBatchInfo": {
        "batchSize": 500,
        "eventSourceArn": "arn:aws-cn:kafka:us-east-1:123456789012:cluster/vpc-2priv-2pub/751d2973-a626-431c-9d4e-d7975eb44dd7-2",
        "bootstrapServers": "...",
        "payloadSize": 2039086, // In bytes
        "recordsInfo": {
            "Topic-0": {
                "firstRecordOffset": "49601189658422359378836298521827638475320189012309704722",
                "lastRecordOffset": "49601189658422359378836298522902373528957594348623495186",
                "firstRecordTimestamp": "2019-11-14T00:38:04.835Z",
                "lastRecordTimestamp": "2019-11-14T00:38:05.580Z",
            },
            "Topic-1": {
                "firstRecordOffset": "49601189658422359378836298521827638475320189012309704722",
                "lastRecordOffset": "49601189658422359378836298522902373528957594348623495186",
                "firstRecordTimestamp": "2019-11-14T00:38:04.835Z",
                "lastRecordTimestamp": "2019-11-14T00:38:05.580Z",
            }
        }
    },
    "payload": "<Whole Event>" // Only available in S3
}