# Kafka Broker often shuts down **URL:** \ **Category:** Kafka Streams\ **Created:** [22 April 2022 04:18 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-broker-often-shuts-down/4841 "2022-04-22T04:18:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aiyer100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@aiyer100](https://forum.confluent.io/u/aiyer100)\ **Post date:** [22 April 2022 04:18 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-broker-often-shuts-down/4841/1 "2022-04-22T04:18:10Z")
We are running a dev environment on Windows with Kafka Broker and our own Kafka Producer and Consumer implementation using Java. After running the broker for a day or so, the broker just goes down. Due to logs folder getting filled up. We manage by cleaning up the tmp\kafka-logs folder and then restarting Kafka Broker. Obviously, this is not an option in production. Please suggest how we could fix this. We are running Kafka on windows. I googled this and some solutions suggested were using Kafka as a docker container or running it on Linux. We could also have an automatic batch file to periodically restart Kafka/clean up the logs. But that is not a good idea at all in production. Please suggest if there is any config change or any other solution to solve this. ---
**Author:** ![vnadkarni](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/vnadkarni/32/1839_2.png) [@vnadkarni](https://forum.confluent.io/u/vnadkarni)\ **Post date:** [22 April 2022 12:27 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-broker-often-shuts-down/4841/2 "2022-04-22T12:27:17Z")
Since this is a duplicate of another thread which already has responses. I’m closing this thread. Duplicate thread here: [Kafka Broker shuts down often](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-broker-shuts-down-often/4840) ---
**Author:** ![vnadkarni](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/vnadkarni/32/1839_2.png) [@vnadkarni](https://forum.confluent.io/u/vnadkarni)\ **Post date:** [22 April 2022 12:28 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/kafka-broker-often-shuts-down/4841/3 "2022-04-22T12:28:00Z")