# ✍️ Why ZooKeeper Was Replaced with KRaft – The Log of All Logs

**URL:** <https://forum.confluent.io/t/why-zookeeper-was-replaced-with-kraft-the-log-of-all-logs/4534>\
**Category:** News and Blogs\
**Created:** [22 March 2022 18:35 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/why-zookeeper-was-replaced-with-kraft-the-log-of-all-logs/4534 "2022-03-22T18:35:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![alice.richardson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.confluent.io/alice.richardson/32/137_2.png) [@alice.richardson](https://forum.confluent.io/u/alice.richardson)\
**Post date:** [22 March 2022 18:35 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/why-zookeeper-was-replaced-with-kraft-the-log-of-all-logs/4534/1 "2022-03-22T18:35:23Z")

</div>

✨ There’s a new post on the [Confluent blog](https://confluent.io/blog). Here’s a snippet from it:

* * *

Why replace ZooKeeper with an internal log for Apache Kafka® metadata management? This post explores the rationale behind the replacement, examines why a quorum-based consensus protocol like Raft was utilized […]

* * *

**[👉 Head over to the blog to read the full article](https://www.confluent.io/blog/why-replace-zookeeper-with-kafka-raft-the-log-of-all-logs)**