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/usr/lib/kafka/bin/kafka-metadata-quorum.sh

Community edition of Confluent Kafka.

From confluent-kafka 8.4.0.215-r1 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running kafka-metadata-quorum.sh --help (exit 0). permalink

usage: kafka-metadata-quorum [-h] [--command-config COMMAND_CONFIG]
                             (--bootstrap-server BOOTSTRAP_SERVER |
                             --bootstrap-controller BOOTSTRAP_CONTROLLER)
                             {describe,add-controller,remove-controller} ...

This tool describes kraft metadata quorum status.

positional arguments:
  {describe,add-controller,remove-controller}
    describe             Describe the metadata quorum info
    add-controller       Add a controller to the KRaft controller cluster
    remove-controller    Remove a controller from the KRaft controller cluster

optional arguments:
  -h, --help             show this help message and exit
  --bootstrap-server BOOTSTRAP_SERVER
                         A comma-separated list of host:port pairs  to use for establishing the
                         connection to the Kafka cluster.
  --bootstrap-controller BOOTSTRAP_CONTROLLER
                         A comma-separated list of host:port pairs  to use for establishing the
                         connection to the Kafka controllers.
  --command-config COMMAND_CONFIG
                         Property file containing configs  to  be  passed  to Admin Client. For
                         add-controller, the file is used  to specify the controller properties
                         as well.
Options (4)
OptionDescriptionSource
-h, --helpshow this help message and exithelp
--bootstrap-server BOOTSTRAP_SERVERA comma-separated list of host:port pairs to use for establishing the connection to the Kafka cluster.help
--bootstrap-controller BOOTSTRAP_CONTROLLERA comma-separated list of host:port pairs to use for establishing the connection to the Kafka controllers.help
--command-config COMMAND_CONFIGProperty file containing configs to be passed to Admin Client.help

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.