Zookeeper is a
centralized
service that is used to manage the configuration and coordination of Kafka clusters.
Zookeeper is used to monitor the
health
of Kafka brokers and to trigger the reassignment of partitions in the event of a broker failure.
Zookeeper maintains a
record
of the Kafka brokers in a cluster, including their current status
Zookeeper is used by Kafka brokers to elect a
leader
for each partition
Zookeeper is used to store the
configuration
of Kafka topics, including the number of partitions and the replication factor.
Zookeeper is used to store the
offset
of the last message consumed by a consumer group
Zookeeper is typically deployed as a
separate
service from Kafka, but it is closely integrated with the Kafka brokers
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