diff --git a/cmd/drainer/drainer.toml b/cmd/drainer/drainer.toml
index 667c44031..97d069106 100644
--- a/cmd/drainer/drainer.toml
+++ b/cmd/drainer/drainer.toml
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ port = 3306
 # kafka-addrs = "127.0.0.1:9092"
 # kafka-version = "0.8.2.0"
 # kafka-max-messages = 1024
+# kafka-max-message-size = 1073741824 # configure max kafka **client** message size
 # kafka-client-id = "tidb_binlog"
 #
 # the topic name drainer will push msg, the default name is <cluster-id>_obinlog
diff --git a/drainer/config.go b/drainer/config.go
index b42b7792a..52c78f224 100644
--- a/drainer/config.go
+++ b/drainer/config.go
@@ -320,7 +320,9 @@ func (cfg *Config) Parse(args []string) error {
 		return errors.Trace(err)
 	}
 
-	initializeSaramaGlobalConfig()
+	if cfg.SyncerCfg.DestDBType == "kafka" {
+		initializeSaramaGlobalConfig(cfg.SyncerCfg.To.KafkaMaxMessageSize)
+	}
 	return cfg.validate()
 }
 
@@ -439,8 +441,9 @@ func (cfg *Config) adjustConfig() error {
 	}
 
 	if cfg.SyncerCfg.DestDBType == "kafka" {
-		maxMsgSize = maxKafkaMsgSize
-
+		if cfg.SyncerCfg.To.KafkaMaxMessageSize <= 0 {
+			cfg.SyncerCfg.To.KafkaMaxMessageSize = maxKafkaMsgSize
+		}
 		// get KafkaAddrs from zookeeper if ZkAddrs is setted
 		if cfg.SyncerCfg.To.ZKAddrs != "" {
 			zkClient, err := newZKFromConnectionString(cfg.SyncerCfg.To.ZKAddrs, time.Second*5, time.Second*60)
diff --git a/drainer/config_test.go b/drainer/config_test.go
index 5345467e4..4729549cb 100644
--- a/drainer/config_test.go
+++ b/drainer/config_test.go
@@ -16,12 +16,14 @@ package drainer
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
+	"math"
 	"os"
 	"path"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/BurntSushi/toml"
+	"github.com/Shopify/sarama"
 	"github.com/pingcap/check"
 	. "github.com/pingcap/check"
 	"github.com/pingcap/parser/mysql"
@@ -222,7 +224,6 @@ func (t *testDrainerSuite) TestAdjustConfig(c *C) {
 	c.Assert(err, IsNil)
 	c.Assert(cfg.SyncerCfg.DestDBType, Equals, "file")
 	c.Assert(cfg.SyncerCfg.WorkerCount, Equals, 1)
-	c.Assert(maxMsgSize, Equals, maxGrpcMsgSize)
 
 	cfg = NewConfig()
 	err = cfg.adjustConfig()
@@ -352,12 +353,15 @@ func (t *testKafkaSuite) TestConfigDestDBTypeKafka(c *C) {
 	c.Assert(cfg.SyncerCfg.To.KafkaAddrs, Matches, defaultKafkaAddrs)
 	c.Assert(cfg.SyncerCfg.To.KafkaVersion, Equals, defaultKafkaVersion)
 	c.Assert(cfg.SyncerCfg.To.KafkaMaxMessages, Equals, 1024)
-	c.Assert(maxMsgSize, Equals, maxKafkaMsgSize)
+	c.Assert(sarama.MaxResponseSize, Equals, int32(maxKafkaMsgSize))
+	c.Assert(sarama.MaxRequestSize, Equals, int32(maxKafkaMsgSize)+1)
 
-	// With Zookeeper address
+	// With Zookeeper address and maxKafkaMsgSize
+	maxInt32 := math.MaxInt32
 	cfg = NewConfig()
 	cfg.SyncerCfg.To = new(dsync.DBConfig)
 	cfg.SyncerCfg.To.ZKAddrs = "host1:2181"
+	cfg.SyncerCfg.To.KafkaMaxMessageSize = int32(maxInt32)
 	err = cfg.Parse(args)
 	c.Assert(err, IsNil)
 	c.Assert(cfg.MetricsAddr, Equals, "192.168.15.10:9091")
@@ -371,4 +375,7 @@ func (t *testKafkaSuite) TestConfigDestDBTypeKafka(c *C) {
 	c.Assert(cfg.SyncerCfg.To.KafkaAddrs, Matches, `(192\.0\.2\.1:9092,192\.0\.2\.2:9092|192\.0\.2\.2:9092,192\.0\.2\.1:9092)`)
 	c.Assert(cfg.SyncerCfg.To.KafkaVersion, Equals, defaultKafkaVersion)
 	c.Assert(cfg.SyncerCfg.To.KafkaMaxMessages, Equals, 1024)
+	c.Assert(sarama.MaxResponseSize, Equals, int32(maxInt32))
+	c.Assert(sarama.MaxRequestSize, Equals, int32(maxInt32))
+	initializeSaramaGlobalConfig(maxKafkaMsgSize)
 }
diff --git a/drainer/pump.go b/drainer/pump.go
index c3c0b41e5..9616a8b72 100644
--- a/drainer/pump.go
+++ b/drainer/pump.go
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ func (p *Pump) createPullBinlogsClient(ctx context.Context, last int64) error {
 		p.grpcConn.Close()
 	}
 
-	callOpts := []grpc.CallOption{grpc.MaxCallRecvMsgSize(maxMsgSize)}
+	callOpts := []grpc.CallOption{grpc.MaxCallRecvMsgSize(maxGrpcMsgSize)}
 
 	if compressor, ok := getCompressorName(ctx); ok {
 		p.logger.Info("pump grpc compression enabled")
diff --git a/drainer/sync/util.go b/drainer/sync/util.go
index 50462c7c7..3cfce3762 100644
--- a/drainer/sync/util.go
+++ b/drainer/sync/util.go
@@ -45,12 +45,14 @@ type DBConfig struct {
 
 	Merge bool `toml:"merge" json:"merge"`
 
-	ZKAddrs          string `toml:"zookeeper-addrs" json:"zookeeper-addrs"`
-	KafkaAddrs       string `toml:"kafka-addrs" json:"kafka-addrs"`
-	KafkaVersion     string `toml:"kafka-version" json:"kafka-version"`
-	KafkaMaxMessages int    `toml:"kafka-max-messages" json:"kafka-max-messages"`
-	KafkaClientID    string `toml:"kafka-client-id" json:"kafka-client-id"`
-	TopicName        string `toml:"topic-name" json:"topic-name"`
+	ZKAddrs             string `toml:"zookeeper-addrs" json:"zookeeper-addrs"`
+	KafkaAddrs          string `toml:"kafka-addrs" json:"kafka-addrs"`
+	KafkaVersion        string `toml:"kafka-version" json:"kafka-version"`
+	KafkaMaxMessages    int    `toml:"kafka-max-messages" json:"kafka-max-messages"`
+	KafkaClientID       string `toml:"kafka-client-id" json:"kafka-client-id"`
+	KafkaMaxMessageSize int32  `toml:"kafka-max-message-size" json:"kafka-max-message-size"`
+	TopicName           string `toml:"topic-name" json:"topic-name"`
+
 	// get it from pd
 	ClusterID uint64 `toml:"-" json:"-"`
 }
diff --git a/drainer/util.go b/drainer/util.go
index d11cd3619..5e9ace394 100644
--- a/drainer/util.go
+++ b/drainer/util.go
@@ -35,12 +35,8 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
-	maxKafkaMsgSize = 1024 * 1024 * 1024
-	maxGrpcMsgSize  = math.MaxInt32
-)
-
-var (
-	maxMsgSize = maxGrpcMsgSize
+	maxKafkaMsgSize = 1 << 30
+	maxGrpcMsgSize  = int(^uint(0) >> 1)
 )
 
 // taskGroup is a wrapper of `sync.WaitGroup`.
@@ -132,10 +128,14 @@ func GenCheckPointCfg(cfg *Config, id uint64) (*checkpoint.Config, error) {
 	return checkpointCfg, nil
 }
 
-func initializeSaramaGlobalConfig() {
-	sarama.MaxResponseSize = int32(maxKafkaMsgSize)
+func initializeSaramaGlobalConfig(kafkaMsgSize int32) {
+	sarama.MaxResponseSize = kafkaMsgSize
 	// add 1 to avoid confused log: Producer.MaxMessageBytes must be smaller than MaxRequestSize; it will be ignored
-	sarama.MaxRequestSize = int32(maxKafkaMsgSize) + 1
+	if kafkaMsgSize < math.MaxInt32 {
+		sarama.MaxRequestSize = kafkaMsgSize + 1
+	} else {
+		sarama.MaxRequestSize = kafkaMsgSize
+	}
 }
 
 func getDDLJob(tiStore kv.Storage, id int64) (*model.Job, error) {
diff --git a/pump/config.go b/pump/config.go
index 978a62c37..ced2cfdd6 100644
--- a/pump/config.go
+++ b/pump/config.go
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ import (
 	"crypto/tls"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
-	"math"
 	"net"
 	"net/url"
 	"os"
@@ -36,7 +35,7 @@ const (
 	defaultEtcdDialTimeout   = 5 * time.Second
 	defaultEtcdURLs          = "http://127.0.0.1:2379"
 	defaultListenAddr        = "127.0.0.1:8250"
-	defautMaxMsgSize         = math.MaxInt32 // max grpc message size
+	defaultMaxMsgSize        = int(^uint(0) >> 1) // max grpc message size
 	defaultHeartbeatInterval = 2
 	defaultGC                = "7"
 	defaultDataDir           = "data.pump"
@@ -111,7 +110,7 @@ func NewConfig() *Config {
 
 	// global config
 	fs.BoolVar(&GlobalConfig.enableDebug, "enable-debug", false, "enable print debug log")
-	fs.IntVar(&GlobalConfig.maxMsgSize, "max-message-size", defautMaxMsgSize, "max message size tidb produce into pump")
+	fs.IntVar(&GlobalConfig.maxMsgSize, "max-message-size", defaultMaxMsgSize, "max message size tidb produce into pump")
 	fs.Int64Var(new(int64), "binlog-file-size", 0, "DEPRECATED")
 	fs.BoolVar(new(bool), "enable-binlog-slice", false, "DEPRECATED")
 	fs.IntVar(new(int), "binlog-slice-size", 0, "DEPRECATED")
diff --git a/pump/server.go b/pump/server.go
index 125d6ef6a..1cfb515f0 100644
--- a/pump/server.go
+++ b/pump/server.go
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ func init() {
 	// it must be set before any real grpc operation.
 	grpc.EnableTracing = false
 	GlobalConfig = &globalConfig{
-		maxMsgSize: defautMaxMsgSize,
+		maxMsgSize: defaultMaxMsgSize,
 	}
 }