You have picked replication factor of 1, so when you bring down the only replica which can be the leader, it cannot be moved elsewhere. So we set it to -1.
Thanks, Neha On Oct 22, 2013 12:21 AM, "Monika Garg" <gargmon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I have made 2 nodes kafka cluster and created a topic with 3 partitions and > 1 replica. > > the partitions got distributed among 2 brokers. > > then one of my broker(broker1) goes down and due to this the > partition(partition2) for which broker1 was acting as a leader,now showing > me the leader value as -1 by the kafka-list-topic-command. > > Any clue for leader coming as -1. > > -- > *Moniii* >
