I think /broker/ids/ is registered as a temporary znode when the broker is down and znode will be removed .
------------------ ???????? ------------------ ??????: "harish lohar"<hklo...@gmail.com>; ????????: 2018??6??7??(??????) ????11:41 ??????: "users"<users@kafka.apache.org>; ????: kafka Broker Znode TTL Do Kafka Broker has configuration to specify TTL for kafka broker znodes such /broker/ids/ This is useful in case zookeeper cluster goes down and kafka broker re-registers , in that case it fails to start as Zookeeper already has the same broker id registered. Thanks Harish