See the producer param called metadata.max.age.ms which is "The period of time in milliseconds after which we force a refresh of metadata even if we haven't seen any partition leadership changes to proactively discover any new brokers or partitions."
-hans > On Aug 4, 2017, at 5:17 AM, Sameer Kumar <sam.kum.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > According to Kafka docs, producer decides on which partition the data shall > reside. I am aware that neither broker nor producer needs to be restarted > to detect added partitions. > > Would like to understand if there is some frequency through which producer > detects new partitions. > > Though consumers were not made partiton aware, any possible reasons for the > same. > > -Sameer.
