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Neha Narkhede commented on KAFKA-264: ------------------------------------- The consumer co-ordinator itself is highly available, since it is elected from amongst the available consumer processes in a group. That can be done using the standard recipe for leader election using Zookeeper > Change the consumer side load balancing and distributed co-ordination to use > a consumer co-ordinator > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-264 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-264 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: core > Affects Versions: 0.7 > Reporter: Neha Narkhede > Assignee: Neha Narkhede > Fix For: 0.7.1 > > Original Estimate: 672h > Remaining Estimate: 672h > > A high level design for the zookeeper consumer is here - > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Consumer+co-ordinator -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira