Hi Team,
I believe your issue has not been resolved till now hence i am pointing toward a direction where you need to look..!!
if you TS is taking 3-4 hours it means there is a massive overload on them, Please check the scheme/scala from kudu runbook
https://kudu.apache.org/docs/scaling_guide.html
Points need to check:
1) Please check how many Tablet per TS you have, we don't recommend more than 2K per TS post replication
2) Does your master WAL and Data directory is on same disk, as its not recommended too
3) How many data directory you have per TS, keep from 3-12..!!
4) Please run your kudu cluster ksck <master_addrss> command and check if your cluster is in healthy state..!!
Thanks..!!