Kafka consumer fetching metadata for topics failed

Question

I am attempting to write a Java client for a third party\'s Kafka and ZooKeeper servers. I am able to list and describe topics, but when I attempt to read any, a Close

Answer 1

Ran into this error on AWS. Problem was I was overly restrictive with the security group and set ports 2181 and 9092 to "my IP". This meant the kafka instance couldn't find the ZK running on the same box.

Solution - open it up - a little.