Kafka issues - Windows

The following issues you will get while running kafka in windows locally.

1. WARN Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 0 : {test=LEADER_NOT_AVAILABLE} (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient)
         Initially kafka setup created successfully and able to produce the messages to producer and consumes the messages from the consumer. I got the max offset reached error messages.
         So manually all the kafka-log, zookeeper-log and topic folders deleted. Then got the error as "WARN Error while fetching metadata with correlation id 0 : {test=LEADER_NOT_AVAILABLE} (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient)" while publishing the message to producer.
         I tried so many ways to fix this and finally got the solution as
              In server.config file change the below 2 parameters.
                  host.name=localhost
                  advertised.host.name=localhost
Then restart the Kafka server, producer. Now start sending the messages to producer and automatically consumer will consumes the messages from producer.
 
2. Always create the kafkalogs and controller files in main folder by setting the kafka.logs.dir paramater in server.config file

3. Run the kafka in windows as below
             step1 : start the zookeeper sever
                  .\bin\windows\zookeeper-server-start.bat .\config\zookeeper.properties
             step2 : start the kafka sever
                  .\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\server.properties
             step3 : list the topics which are created in kafka broker
                 .\bin\windows\kafka-topics.bat --list  --zookeeper localhost:2181
             step4 : create the topic
                  .\bin\windows\kafka-topics.bat --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partition 1 --topic test
             step5 : run the producer for the particular topic
                  .\bin\windows\kafka-console-producer.bat --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test
             step3 : run the consumer for the particular topic.
                 .\bin\windows\kafka-console-consumer.bat --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic test --from-beginning
      => the consumer consumes the messages from the first message.
                  .\bin\windows\kafka-console-consumer.bat --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic test
      => the consumer consumes the messages from the last offset ( Recent messages)