Cluster Partition Rebalancer For Kafka

Cluster Partition Rebalancer For Kafka is a tool that runs in the background on Kafka brokers and lets them move partitions across brokers to maintain a good balance of partitions per broker.

[This is at a Proof of Concept stage. You might have to change some utility code. Example: How to fetch all broker and zookeeper machines on your cluster]

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Usage

1. Clone the repository locally Git clone

2. Change directory to your repo

3. Build and package the project

mvn package

4. Run the jar like this (preferably as a service so that it is restarted upon exit):

rm -f partitions-to-move.json*

On Windows:
java -cp "partitionRebalancerForKafka-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar;*" BrokerLoadWatcher

On Linux:
java -cp "partitionRebalancerForKafka-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar:*" BrokerLoadWatcher

License

Cluster Partition Rebalancer For Kafka is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENCE.txt file for full license information.