My confluent-kafka-python - version 1.7.0 producer code is as below from confluent_kafka import KafkaError, KafkaException def publish_data(): try: producer.produce( topic=topic, value={"produced_epoch": produced_epoch }, ) producer.flush() except (KafkaError, RuntimeError, KafkaException, Exception) as e: logging.error(f'Error publishing to kafka : {e}') return False return True While producing the code I am getting the below error in Kafka broker %5|1634047381.445|REQTMOUT|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2]: ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2: Timed out ProduceRequest in flight (after 60844ms, timeout #0) %5|1634047381.445|REQTMOUT|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2]: ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2: Timed out ProduceRequest in flight (after 60837ms, timeout #1) %5|1634047381.445|REQTMOUT|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2]: ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2: Timed out ProduceRequest in flight (after 60816ms, timeout #2) %5|1634047381.445|REQTMOUT|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2]: ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2: Timed out ProduceRequest in flight (after 60809ms, timeout #3) %5|1634047381.445|REQTMOUT|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2]: ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2: Timed out ProduceRequest in flight (after 60788ms, timeout #4) %4|1634047381.445|REQTMOUT|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2]: ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2: Timed out 31 in-flight, 0 retry-queued, 0 out-queue, 0 partially-sent requests %3|1634047381.445|FAIL|rdkafka#producer-1| [thrd:ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2]: ssl://kafka-kafka-2.kafka-kafka-brokers.kafka.svc:9093/2: 31 request(s) timed out: disconnect (after 108069ms in state UP) I want to catch the REQTMOUT error and return False when error. But unable to do the same. Can anyone help me with it. Continue reading...