What is Vote?
A candidate KRaft controller sends this to other quorum voters to request a vote during leader election. High Vote request rates in controller logs indicate quorum instability, possibly from network partitions or GC pauses causing missed heartbeats.
Wire Diagram
Response Header · flexible
message_size
int32 · 4B
correlation_id
int32 · 4B
tagged
var
VoteResponse v2
ErrorCode
int16 · 2B
tagged
var
TopicName
string (compact)
tagged
var
PartitionIndex
int32 · 4B
ErrorCode
int16 · 2B
LeaderId
int32 · 4B
LeaderEpoch
int32 · 4B
VoteGranted
bool · 1B
tagged
var
NodeId
int32 · 4B
Host
string (compact)
Port
uint16 · 2B
tagged
var
Schema & Example
Schema { "ErrorCode": int16, "Topics": [{ "TopicName": string, "Partitions": [{ "PartitionIndex": int32, "ErrorCode": int16, "LeaderId": int32, "LeaderEpoch": int32, "VoteGranted": bool }] }], "NodeEndpoints": [{ "NodeId": int32, "Host": string, "Port": uint16 }] }
Example { "ErrorCode": 0, "Topics": [{ "TopicName": "orders", "Partitions": [{ "PartitionIndex": 3, "ErrorCode": 0, "LeaderId": 1, "LeaderEpoch": 17, "VoteGranted": true }] }], "NodeEndpoints": [{ "NodeId": 1, "Host": "broker-1.kafka.local", "Port": 9092 }] }