cruise-control-for-kafka/cruise-control
Cruise-control is the first of its kind to fully automate the dynamic workload rebalance and self-healing of a Kafka cluster. It provides great value to Kafka users by simplifying the operation of Kafka clusters. observed · 2026-10-11
Health v2 · maintenance only
91/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 75
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 33
- age_days: 3353
- days_rel: 89
- days_push: 11
- n_releases_24m: 8
Adoption not part of the score
3046 stars · 653 forks observed · 2026-10-11
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Cruise Control is a Java-based service that automates dynamic workload rebalancing and self-healing for Apache Kafka clusters. It tracks broker resource utilization, generates multi-goal rebalance proposals, detects anomalies like broker failures, and performs admin operations such as adding or removing brokers.
Use cases
- automatically rebalance my kafka cluster
- detect and self-heal broker failures in kafka
- generate rebalance proposals for rack-aware replica placement
- monitor resource utilization across kafka brokers
- safely decommission kafka brokers without downtime
- fix offline replicas and adjust replication factor
- detect slow brokers and metric anomalies in kafka
When to choose
- you operate large kafka clusters with hundreds of brokers where manual rebalancing is impractical
- you need automated anomaly detection and self-healing for kafka
- you want rack-aware, capacity-aware replica placement optimization
When to avoid
- you run small kafka clusters where manual partition reassignment is sufficient
- you use a message broker other than apache kafka
- you cannot run an additional jvm service alongside your kafka cluster
Facets
service · maturity active
monitoring alerting configuration-management deployment analytics microservices monitoring self-hosted infrastructure-as-code jvm self-hosted kafka cluster-rebalancing self-healing anomaly-detection broker-management linkedin devops linux docker
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/cruise-control-for-kafka/cruise-control · fetched 2026-10-11 · 245412159b22
- homepage: https://github.com/linkedin/cruise-control/tags · fetched 2026-08-29 · 21c831c9ae68
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| cruise-control-for-kafka/cruise-control | main | 91 |
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