Kafka Troubleshooting Guide

This doc is about a Kafka troubleshooting guide

Check the Kafka Broker's status

• kubectl get pods -n kafka-cluster

• Describe the brokers and look for error

  kubectl describe kafka-v2-0 -n kafka-cluster kubectl describe kafka-v2-1 -n kafka-cluster kubectl describe kafka-v2-2 -n kafka-cluster

• Check Kafka brokers logs for error

  kubectl logs -f kafka-v2-0 -n kafka-cluster kubectl logs -f kafka-v2-1 -n kafka-cluster kubectl logs -f kafka-v2-2 -n kafka-cluster

• If brokers are in crashloopbackoff due to disk space issues, follow the below document for the cleanup of the logs

  • Cleanup Kafka logs