Yes, Kafka use replica to tolerate node failures. Depending on which level of durability and availability guarantee you need, you might need different settings on the broker and producer. Kafka cluster will automatically take care of node failure in a cluster for you.
Jiangjie (Becket) Qin On 3/24/15, 1:34 PM, "Srividhya Shanmugam" <[email protected]> wrote: >If the entire kafka cluster is down, then the cluster mirror can be a >solution for disaster recovery. If a hardware failure that corrupts the >disk of a node in the kafka cluster, and if there are enough replications >configured for each topic partitions, would that be a solution for >disaster recovery? >Would kafka cluster takes care of it automatically? I understand the >consumers and possibly the producers may have a partial commit problem. > >Thanks, >Srividhya > >This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, >proprietary and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they >are addressed. If you have received this email in error please delete it >immediately.
