I believe the 10% is measured on a broker level not a topic level. Do you see lines like:
[2016-04-27 22:52:47,854] TRACE [Controller 3]: leader imbalance ratio for broker 5 is 0.978555 (kafka.controller.KafkaController) [2016-04-27 22:52:47,855] TRACE [Controller 3]: leader imbalance ratio for broker 1 is 0.000000 (kafka.controller.KafkaController) [2016-04-27 22:52:47,855] TRACE [Controller 3]: leader imbalance ratio for broker 2 is 0.000000 (kafka.controller.KafkaController) [2016-04-27 22:52:47,855] TRACE [Controller 3]: leader imbalance ratio for broker 3 is 0.000000 (kafka.controller.KafkaController) [2016-04-27 22:52:47,855] TRACE [Controller 3]: leader imbalance ratio for broker 4 is 0.000000 (kafka.controller.KafkaController) in your controller log? rob > On Apr 27, 2016, at 3:46 PM, Kane Kim <kane.ist...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Bump > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Kane Kim <kane.ist...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> We have auto.leader.rebalance.enable = True, other options are by default >> (10% imbalance ratio and 300 seconds). >> >> We have a check that reports leadership imbalance: >> >> critical: Leadership out of balance for topic mp-auth. Leader counts: { >> "104224873"=>84, "104224876"=>22, "104224877"=>55, "104224863"=>110, >> "104224865"=>107, "104224867"=>105, "104224868"=>42, "104224871"=>9, >> "104224879"=>20, "104224866"=>12, "104224869"=>17, "104224864"=>14, >> "104224878"=>3} >> >> Above is the brokerid: number of partitions, apparently the imbalance is >> higher than 10% and it was in this state for a couple of hours, there is no >> evidence that it's trying to rebalance. >> >> Is there anything else we have to configure/check? >> >> Thanks. >> ________________________________ This email and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, copying, or distribution of this email (or any attachments) by others is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately and permanently delete this email and any attachments. No employee or agent of TiVo Inc. is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of TiVo Inc. by email. Binding agreements with TiVo Inc. may only be made by a signed written agreement.