Kyle Liberti

> should we let users specify it in the cruise control config as metric.reporter.topic and then we will update cruise.control.metrics.topic to match. Sounds like a nice feature to me, from...

> So increasing the partitions from 1 for that topic won't benefit the consumer. That makes sense but then makes me curious about the `strimzi.cruisecontrol.modeltrainingsamples` and `strimzi.cruisecontrol.partitionmetricsamples ` topics and...

Hey @synchris, I was intending on taking on this task but got side tracked with some other work. Are you still interested in taking on this task?

> I am interested implementimg this feature as we want to use cruise control without switching to another operator That is awesome @synchris, I'll assign this task to you then!...

Sounds good to me @katheris!

Looking deeper at the CC wiki [1] it looks like we can move leader replicas off specific disks of a broker but can't specify where the data will go: ```...

Not yet @sreelu27, latest discussion on the issue will take place here. I'll take a closer look over next couple days!

Upon further investigation, it appears that the `hard.goals` config is just list of goals that Cruise Control requires to be specified in `default.goals` config or an API requests `goals` parameter...

Closing since this issue stems from a misunderstand of the configurations and documentation > In either case, allowing the configuration of hard and soft goals would be a good enhancement...

> Sorry, but that failure, as for now, is by design. Making this particular change makes very little sense, as client should be able to handle this error without resorting...