Re: What happens to Kafka when ZK lost its quorum or becomes unstable?

2014-05-13 Thread Jun Rao
The brokers are designed with the expectation that ZK service is always available. If ZK is not available, the clients may not be able to send/fetch data properly. Thanks, Jun On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:48 AM, Connie Yang cybercon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can the producers, brokers and

What happens to Kafka when ZK lost its quorum or becomes unstable?

2014-05-13 Thread Connie Yang
Hi, Can the producers, brokers and consumers still be processing messages when their ZK cluster lost its quorum or becomes unstable? I know this is rather general question as it may depends on what configuration these use. So, please enumerate all of those combinations. Thanks, Connie