Hi Sanaa,
yes it's enough NOT having the "controller" role to be just an "observer".
As soon as your node has "controller" role configured (in addition to
"broker" or alone) it acts as a "voter" and then being a leader or
"follower" based on the election result.
Thanks
Paolo
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024,
Hi Paolo,
If I'm understanding correctly, a kafka broker (aside from the controller
quorum) can be the observer? Do we need to set the process role to anything
in this case to indicate that we want a broker to be an observer?
On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 3:01 PM Paolo Patierno
wrote:
> Hi Sanaa,
> i
Hi Sanaa,
in KRaft mode there is the role of "observer" which is typically taken by
brokers as part of the data plane. The broker/observer can discover which
node is the leader/active controller and fetches the metadata from it (as
the "followers" in the KRaft quorum), but cannot vote and cannot be
Hello,
Currently in Zookeeper, there is the concept of an observer/dummy node that
can be used when scaling up a cluster (
https://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.4.13/zookeeperObservers.html).
Is there an equivalent of an observer node in KRaft mode? Asking because we
use the observer node for our s
