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The coordinator by default attempts to distribute segments in a way that makes querying most efficient - this is the

cachingCost

balancer strategy If you are more interested in disk space, try setting

druid.coordinator.balancer.strategy

to

diskNormalized

See: https://druid.apache.org/docs/latest/configuration/index.html#coordinator-operation

Hey Shilpa – once upon a time I had a balance problem – and it was down to

maxSegmentsToMove

– you may want to check that too

Thanks @Kyle Hoondert, @Peter Marshall Will try out the options