> > Alternatively you can get the same metadata from Zookeeper If this is true, why does the producer API makes it necessary to supply a value for metadata.broker.list?
I noticed that this wasn't the case in 0.7. On 8 Aug 2015 04:06, "Lukas Steiblys" <lu...@doubledutch.me> wrote: > Hi Qi, > > Yes, the metadata request will return information about all the brokers in > the cluster. Alternatively you can get the same metadata from Zookeeper. > > Lukas > > -----Original Message----- From: Qi Xu > Sent: Friday, August 7, 2015 2:30 PM > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: Kafka metadata > > Hi Everyone, > I have a question that hopes to get some clarification. > In a Kafka cluster, does every broker have the complete view of the > metadata information? > What's the best practice for aproducer to send metadata request? Is it > recommended to send it to all brokers or just one broker? > > In our scenario, we want to avoid the situation that each producer needs to > talk to every broker because we have hundreds thousands of producers and > the scalability of connection number will be a concern if every cluster > node is connected by any producer. > > Thanks you for your help. > > Qi >
