Kafka logs traffic to the Controller node separately from the normal traffic to the node. In order to differentiate it subtracts the broker id from 2147483647 (max int) and uses the result as the "node id" for the controller.
On a related note, logs and metrics related to the bootstrap process seems to be logged with negative integers. -1 for the first bootstrap server, -2 for the second and so on. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: pravin kumar <pk007...@gmail.com> To: users@kafka.apache.org Cc: Bcc: Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 14:44:04 +0530 Subject: reg Kafka Node num I have run a Multiple Partition and Multiple Consumer application.Then i have altered the no of Partitions, in log im getting Using older server API v0 to send HEARTBEAT {group_id= altermultipartitionmulticonsumer2,group_generation_id=6, member_id=C2-b7b4f485-d0c3-466b-b0e7-b3de834832e9} to node 2147483647. (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient) i have one node and 3 consumers and 15 partitions. my doubt is :why im getting this num node 2147483647 since i have only one node