Hello Jeff,
Generally speaking ZK's stored offset paths should not be used as the
"source-of-truth" to determine which topic-partitions exist in the Kafka
cluster, but instead the broker topics path should be treated as the
"source-of-truth". More specifically, the common usage pattern would be:
We hit an error in some custom monitoring code for our Kafka cluster where
the root cause was zookeeper was storing for some partition offsets for
consumer groups, but those partitions didn't actually exist on the brokers.
Apparently in the past, some colleagues needed to reset a stuck cluster
cau
