Hi We are on Kafka 1.1 and have 3 Kafka brokers, and help your need to understand the error message, and what it would take to fix the problem.
On Broker-1 we see the following logs for several and *some producers fails to write to Kafka*: [2018-10-08 12:28:25,609] INFO [ReplicaFetcher replicaId=1, leaderId=3, fetcherId=0] Remote broker is not the leader for partition __consumer_offsets-44, which could indicate that the partition is being moved (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread) [2018-10-08 12:28:25,609] INFO [ReplicaFetcher replicaId=1, leaderId=3, fetcherId=0] Remote broker is not the leader for partition __consumer_offsets-20, which could indicate that the partition is being moved (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread) [2018-10-08 12:28:25,609] INFO [ReplicaFetcher replicaId=1, leaderId=3, fetcherId=0] Remote broker is not the leader for partition __consumer_offsets-2, which could indicate that the partition is being moved (kafka.server.ReplicaFetcherThread) Here is server.properties on Broker-1 *# The id of the broker. This must be set to a unique integer for each broker. broker.id <http://broker.id>=1* *auto.create.topics.enable=true delete.topic.enable=true* * ################ SHUTDOWN and REBALANCING ####################### # Both the following properties are also enabled by default as well, also explicitly settings here* *controlled.shutdown.enable=true auto.leader.rebalance.enable=true* *unclean.leader.election.enable=true* -- Raghav