What is Zookeeper and why is it needed for Apache Kafka? Written by Elin Vinka 2018-07-04 Are you using Apache Kafka to build message streaming services? Then you might have run into the expression Zookeeper. To us at CloudKarafka, as a Apache Kafka hosting service, it’s important that our users understand what Zookeeper is and how it integrates with Kafka, since some of you have been asking about