kafka broker not available at starting

Question

I set on a ubuntu node of a cluster a kafka 0.11.0.0 instance. Until some weeks ago everything worked fine, today I\'m trying to starting it and I obtain this error after th

Answer 1

I was also facing the same problem on WINDOWS 10 and went through all the answers in this post. What caused this problem for me and how I solved is this, On my fresh windows machine, I did a jre (jre-8u221) installation and then followed the steps mentioned in Apache Kafka documentation to start zookeeper, kafka server, send messages through producer etc. But I was getting errors related to broker not available. I then downloaded jdk (jdk-8u221 from Oracle) and installed it. Set the JAVA_HOME and Path variables and restarted the machine. Everything after worked in one go.