Hi, I am running a Kafka POC with below details
* 3 Node cluster (4 Core, 16 GB RAM each) running Kafka 0.8.2.1. * Each node running Kafka & Zookeeper instances. (So total of 3 Kafka brokers & 3 zookeepers) When I tried to create a topic using the kafka-topics.sh, observing the below exceptions on the console. If I try multiple times, the topic is getting created at some time. Please suggest a workaround to make this work every time. Thanks in advance. [ec2-user@ip-10-20-0-196 kafka_2.10-0.8.2.1]$ ./bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper 10.20.0.196:2181,10.20.0.197:2181,10.20.0.198:2181 --topic reportspoc4 --create --partitions 1 --replication-factor 2 Error while executing topic command replication factor: 2 larger than available brokers: 1 kafka.admin.AdminOperationException: replication factor: 2 larger than available brokers: 1 at kafka.admin.AdminUtils$.assignReplicasToBrokers(AdminUtils.scala:70) at kafka.admin.AdminUtils$.createTopic(AdminUtils.scala:171) at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.createTopic(TopicCommand.scala:93) at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.main(TopicCommand.scala:55) at kafka.admin.TopicCommand.main(TopicCommand.scala) [ec2-user@ip-10-20-0-196 kafka_2.10-0.8.2.1]$ ./bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper 10.20.0.196:2181,10.20.0.197:2181,10.20.0.198:2181 --topic reportspoc4 --create --partitions 1 --replication-factor 2 Error while executing topic command org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$NoNodeException: KeeperErrorCode = NoNode for /brokers/ids org.I0Itec.zkclient.exception.ZkNoNodeException: org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$NoNodeException: KeeperErrorCode = NoNode for /brokers/ids at org.I0Itec.zkclient.exception.ZkException.create(ZkException.java:47) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.retryUntilConnected(ZkClient.java:685) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.getChildren(ZkClient.java:413) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.getChildren(ZkClient.java:409) at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.getChildren(ZkUtils.scala:462) at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.getSortedBrokerList(ZkUtils.scala:78) at kafka.admin.AdminUtils$.createTopic(AdminUtils.scala:170) at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.createTopic(TopicCommand.scala:93) at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.main(TopicCommand.scala:55) at kafka.admin.TopicCommand.main(TopicCommand.scala) Caused by: org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$NoNodeException: KeeperErrorCode = NoNode for /brokers/ids at org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException.create(KeeperException.java:111) at org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException.create(KeeperException.java:51) at org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.getChildren(ZooKeeper.java:1472) at org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.getChildren(ZooKeeper.java:1500) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkConnection.getChildren(ZkConnection.java:99) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$2.call(ZkClient.java:416) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$2.call(ZkClient.java:413) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.retryUntilConnected(ZkClient.java:675) ... 8 more --regards Hemanth