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= Cruise Control

Cruise Control is an open source project for simplifying the monitoring and balancing of data across a Kafka cluster.
Cruise Control is deployed alongside a Kafka cluster to monitor its traffic, propose more balanced partition assignments, and trigger partition reassignments based on those proposals.