Could you run the tool kafka.tools.ConsumerOffsetChecker? It will show you which consumer instance owns which partition.
Thanks, Jun On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Karl Kirch <kki...@wdtinc.com> wrote: > Our setup is a three node cluster, we have a Kafka 0.7.2 (with 10 > partitions per node) and Zookeeper 3.3.4 on each node. When we first start > up the cluster, there are no issues and things work just fine, but after a > while things start acting a bit haywire. It looks like we start to miss > messages that should be coming through the system. However on client > restart, logging shows that only the partitions on broker 2 and 3 are being > re-balanced (for the particular topic I'm connecting to). I'm confidant > that there is nothing else connected to the cluster (as we've seen this a > couple of times now). To make it more interesting, if I switch topics, the > client will rebalance the partitions on all three brokers. > > Anyone know of any reason why this could occur? > > Thanks, > Karl