JEPSEN

Redpanda 21.10.1

2022-04-28

Jepsen and Redpanda worked together to analyze the Redpanda distributed queue, versions 21.10.1 through 21.11.2. We found three liveness and seven safety issues, including crashes, aborted reads, inconsistent offsets, circular information flow, and lost or stale messages. We also discuss surprising aspects of the Kafka/Redpanda transaction model. Redpanda has resolved seven of the issues we found, although lost/stale messages and one crash remain under investigation. A few other issues require only documentation to clarify intended behavior.