I think you are running into KAFKA-972 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-972>(MetadataRequest returns stale list of brokers) which is marked to be fixed in the 0.8.3 release.
Thank you, Grant On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Priya Darsini <pdmgnfc940...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have 3 brokers and created a topic with replication factor 3. > I described topic after killing the brokers one by one. > When i deleted my last live broker and described topic it still shows value > for leader and isr. > I've enabled auto.leader.rebalance > > > Any clarifications for this confusing behaviour of kafka broker are > welcome. > Thanks in advance. > -- Grant Henke Software Engineer | Cloudera gr...@cloudera.com | twitter.com/gchenke | linkedin.com/in/granthenke