topic.metadata.refresh.interval.ms

The producer generally refreshes the topic metadata from brokers when there is a failure (partition missing, leader not available…). It will also poll regularly (default: every 10min so 600000ms). If you set this to a negative value, metadata will only get refreshed on failure. If you set this to zero, the metadata will get refreshed after each message sent (not recommended) Important note: the refresh happen only AFTER the message is sent, so if the producer never sends a message the metadata is never refreshed