Tag - Prepare to shutdown (kafka.server.KafkaServer)kafka.common.InconsistentClusterIdException

Resolve Apache Kafka starting issue installed on Single/Multi-node cluster

This short article explains how to resolve the error “ERROR Fatal error during KafkaServer startup. Prepare to shutdown (kafka.server.KafkaServer)kafka.common.InconsistentClusterIdException:” when we start the Apache Kafka installed and configured on a multi-node cluster. You can read here the steps for setting up multi-node Apache Kafka cluster. Without integrating Apache Zookeeper, Kafka alone won’t be able to form the complete Kafka cluster. Because ZooKeeper handles the leadership election of Kafka brokers and manages service discovery as well as cluster topology. Also tracks when topics are...

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