If you are using ZK based consumers, they should handle broker restarts automatically.
Thanks, Jun On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Yonghui Zhao <zhaoyong...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > In kafka 0.7.2, we use 2 brokers and 12 consumers. > > I have 2 questions: > > 1. seems if one broker is restarted then all consumers need restart to > reconnect to kafka. right? > 2. How to monitor whether the consumer connection with the broker is > healthy? > > Thank you very much. >