Error: partition 0 does not have a leader. Skip ge

Question

I am trying to determine the current offset on a topic, I run the

bin/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.GetOffsetShell

Command and I get the following error, What may be going on, and how do I fix this?

Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx4g
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Error: partition 0 does not have a leader. Skip getting offsets

Answer 1

Most probably your Kafka brokers are down.

You can run

kafka-topics --zookeeper host:2181 --describe --topic topic_name

and see whether the Leader is equal to -1. If this is the case then you need to start Kafka brokers.

bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties