Hi all,

This question arose elsewhere, and I'm also going to fire it off to
O'Reilly in the hopes that they'll clarify, but on page 180 of the
Definitive Guide v2
<https://assets.confluent.io/m/2849a76e39cda2bd/original/20201119-EB-Kafka_The_Definitive_Guide-Preview-Chapters_1_thru_6.pdf>
it
states:

*Kafka brokers do not automatically take partition leadership back (unless
auto leader rebalance is enabled, but this configuration is not
recommended)*

The original commenter raised the point that this defaults to true, and it
sounds like a good idea to have auto leader rebalancing.

So I'm curious, in anyone's war stories or experiences, has this property
being enabled been harmful? From the context that the paragraph was written
in, I'm assuming the writers were perhaps intending to emphasise the Cruise
Control or Confluents self-balancing-cluster / auto-balancing features were
preferable, but in my very brief Google didn't see any advice to set
auto.leader.rebalance.enabled to false to use those tools.

So yeah, just curious if this rings any bells.

Cheers,

Liam Clarke-Hutchinson

Reply via email to