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Changing KafkaBackOffException Logging Level

When a message in the retry topic is not due for consumption, a KafkaBackOffException is thrown. Such exceptions are logged by default at DEBUG level, but you can change this behavior by setting an error handler customizer in the ListenerContainerFactoryConfigurer in a @Configuration class.

For example, to change the logging level to WARN you might add:

@Override
protected void configureCustomizers(CustomizersConfigurer customizersConfigurer) {
    customizersConfigurer.customizeErrorHandler(defaultErrorHandler ->
            defaultErrorHandler.setLogLevel(KafkaException.Level.WARN))
}