Will the rebalancer distribute the leaders evenly amongst the cluster.  It is not clear from the docs, seems it only balances the replica's which should result in leaders also being balanced as well? Let’s say “I only have 1 host reading from the cluster and I select closest_replica. Won’t I end up in the same situation? How does the master distribute load? IP address hash? Can I change this to RR or this something controlled from the client side? For others reading this post, I was able to identify the leader tablet distribution without using the rebalance tool. I am on an older Kudu that does not provide the tool. I was able to copy and paste the live tablet info from the UI of the t-servers into excel and found that 95% of the of leaders are on the first t-server. Thanks ... View more

Yes, we are using the API via the Kudu client java libs. I don’t see the code passing a replica selection policy when we create a scanner object so it is the default which I believe must be Leader. How can I find the balance of the leader replica’s amongst the nodes? ... View more