The imbalance is measured wrt preferred leaders. i.e., for every
partition, the first replica in the assigned replica list (as shown in
the output of kafka-topics.sh) is called the preferred replica. On
each broker, the auto-balancer counts the number of partitions led by
that broker for which the
Hello Wes,
The document here is a bit misleading indeed:
http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#brokerconfigs
In Kafka a partition has a replica list {A,B,C..} and the first replica
would be the leader of the partition. When it is not the case, for example
since A is down B becomes the leade
I'm trying to understand the config options for auto-rebalancing. This
is what we have in /etc/kafka/server.properties for all the nodes:
auto.leader.rebalance.enable=true
leader.imbalance.per.broker.percentage=10
leader.imbalance.check.interval.seconds=300
We have 10 nodes for this topic which
