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Restarting Brokers of a RocketMQ Instance

Restart one or more brokers of a RocketMQ instance at a time on the DMS for RocketMQ console.

How do I know which broker is the master?

Each broker has one master node and two standby nodes. For example, to purchase one broker, two brokers will be created. Three brokers are deployed in raft mode with broker IDs 1, 2, and 3. When one broker becomes the master, its broker ID is 0. In this case, the broker whose ID is 0 is the master one.

Figure 1 Restarting brokers

Notes and Constraints

Available only for RocketMQ 4.8.0 and not for 5.x.

During the restart, client requests for message consumption and production will be rejected for up to 30s. Restart brokers during off-peak hours. Restarting slave brokers does not affect services.

Prerequisite

The RocketMQ instance must be running.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the RocketMQ console.
  2. In the row containing the desired RocketMQ instance, choose More > Restart Broker.
  3. Select the brokers to be restarted and click Yes.

    It takes 3 to 15 minutes to restart the brokers.

Parent Topic: Managing Instances