I'm testing a kafka install and using the java client. I have a topic set up and it appears to work great, but after a while I noticed my log starting to fill up with what appears to be some kind of loop for metadata updates.
example:: 2016-04-22 15:43:55,139 DEBUG s=s-root_out env="md" [kafka-producer-network-thread | sds-merdevl] org.apache.kafka.clients.Metadata: Updated cluster metadata version 6196 to Cluster(nodes = [Node(0, cmp-arch-kafka-01d.cc.com, 9092)], partitions = [Partition(topic = s.notifications.dev, partition = 0, leader = 0, replicas = [0,], isr = [0,]]) 2016-04-22 15:43:55,240 DEBUG s=s-root_out env="md" [kafka-producer-network-thread | sds-merdevl] org.apache.kafka.clients.Metadata: Updated cluster metadata version 6197 to Cluster(nodes = [Node(0, cmp-arch-kafka-01d.cc.com, 9092)], partitions = [Partition(topic = s.notifications.dev, partition = 0, leader = 0, replicas = [0,], isr = [0,]]) 2016-04-22 15:43:55,341 DEBUG s=s-root_out env="md" [kafka-producer-network-thread | sds-merdevl] org.apache.kafka.clients.Metadata: Updated cluster metadata version 6198 to Cluster(nodes = [Node(0, cmp-arch-kafka-01d.cc.com, 9092)], partitions = [Partition(topic = s.notifications.dev, partition = 0, leader = 0, replicas = [0,], isr = [0,]]) etc. It hasn't stopped.. I'm curious about what's going on here. Can anyone help?