Option to set timeout for Kafka client connection

[avivgold098]

Description

We would like to set an option of Kafka timeout. There are use-cases where the Kafka brokers are heavily utilized and metrics visibility is impacted due to connection timed out

[avivgold098]

@weeco Let me know what do you think, my team can support and implement this

[weeco]

@avivgold098 If you implement a configurable timeout for all Kafka requests, could you elaborate how that helps with metrics visibility? Even if we have a client sided request timeout, these requests would still be processed by the brokers.

[jlrick98]

I see this is an old issue, but our KMinion is really hurting. We would love to be able to configure our I/O timeout to be longer