Is partition leadership spread evenly among the nodes in your cluster? Since only the leaders of a partition will service reads and writes, one broker could be using more CPU than the others if it was the leader for more partitions.
Have you tried using a utility like top or htop? what processes does it show with the highest CPU? On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 12:35 PM Antony A <antonyaugus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Kafka 1.0.1 on a 7 broker cluster. On one of the brokers the > CPU usage is always pegged around 98% utilization. If anyone had similar > issues, please can you comment on it? > > Thanks, > AA >