> > If a Broker machine goes down, is restarted and hostname of the machine > changes, in this case would the logs on the machine become available or > would they be lost. I would really appreciate if you could provide some > details on how this would work.
The logs will still be available. > > I see that a consumer going down triggers a rebalance and the paper > mentions that the rebalance happens pretty quickly. If we have a fickle > consumer that for some reason starts up and crashes, again and again, would > that block the entire Kafka system? > > Only that consumer group will be affected. Other consumer groups and producers should be fine. Thanks, Joel
