Does Kafka elect new follower when the original follower is down?

Hello, I have a 6 broker cluster, configured with auto.leader.rebalance.enable=false. The broker ids are 1 thru 6. I have about 160 partitions for which I assigned the replicas to be 1,2,3 (1 is the leader). When broker-2 underwent a controlled shutdown, the 'kafka-topics.sh -describe' command

Re: Does Kafka elect new follower when the original follower is down?

As of now, kafka doesn't have the capability to automatically migrate followers to other brokers. We have to use kafka-reassign-partition.sh script. On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Ramanan, Buvana (Nokia - US/Murray Hill) < buvana.rama...@nokia-bell-labs.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a 6 broker