https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-producer-and-consumer-identify-the-leader-in-Kafka/m-p/212069#M174008 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/1496/nileshpatil.html" nodeid="1496">@Nilesh</A> within the zookeeper the leader is given at this path: </P><P>/brokers/topics/&lt;&lt;topicname&gt;&gt;</P><P>at this path a value named 'partitions' is available, providing key value pairs of</P><P>&lt;&lt;partition id&gt;&gt; : &lt;&lt;broker id (of leader)&gt;&gt;</P><P>To identify the connection parameter for the broker id, check at the path</P><P>/brokers/ids/&lt;&lt;broker id&gt;</P><P>the attributes "host", "port" and "endpoints", where endpoints is a multivalue and can contain more than one endpoint.</P> Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:16:02 GMT arald 2018-01-19T15:16:02Z