This seems to be an issue thats fixed in 0.8.2 and after upgrading the kafka cluster to 0.8.2 this issue was resolved. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1738
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1738> On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Dillian Murphey <crackshotm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, not a help, but I just posted the same question. I'm noticing the > same thing. Where is your hardware? Just curious. I'm running my > kafka/zookeeper on AWS. > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Buntu Dev <buntu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Also note that the metadata for the topic is missing. I tried creating > few > > more topics and all have the same issue. > > > > Using the Kafka console producer on the topic, I see these error messages > > indicating the missing metadata: > > > > WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic my-topic -> > > No partition metadata for topic my-topic due to > > kafka.common.UnknownException}] for topic [my-topic]: class > > kafka.common.UnknownException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) > > >