Kafka offers the ability to reassign leaders to the desired replicas in order to tackle this problem. This can be accomplished in one of two ways:

The auto.leader.rebalance.enable=true broker option allows the controller node to transfer leadership to the preferred replica leaders, restoring the even distribution.

When Kafka-preferred-replica-election.sh is run, the preferred replica is selected for all partitions: The utility requires a JSON file containing a mandatory list of zookeeper hosts and an optional list of topic partitions. If no list is provided, the utility uses a zookeeper to retrieve all of the cluster's topic partitions. The Kafka-preferred-replica-election.sh utility can be time-consuming to use. Custom scripts can render only the topics and partitions that are required, automating the process across the cluster.