By default, when a Storm spout or bolt encounters an exception, it restarts the spout or bolt and tries again. Is there any configuration option to make it stop the topology, perhaps after N repeated attempts? (For example, Hadoop tries 4 times before giving up.)
I had a Storm topology run for 77 days with one bolt raising an exception on every tuple. In situations like that, I'd rather it fail so that I notice that something's wrong.