You should plan this ahead and make sure that your topic partition and replication factors are updated correctly using kafka topics admin or a batch job setup for Kafka Mirror Maker. Apache wiki explains how Mirror maker can guarantee a failsafe mirroring. I cannot quite remember how deep the mirroring goes e.g. Consumer offsets etc. But my understanding is that it should do it correctly.
Regards, On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 at 10:58 pm, karan alang <karan.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > I've streaming data flowing into Kafka topics. > What are the best practices wrt. adding or removing Kafka Brokers while > data is flowing into Kafka ? > > for eg. Can I add Broker & re-balance the topics while the data flows into > Kafka topic ? > > Pls. advise. > > Thanks! >