controller.port-9000

change that to:

controller.port=9000

Yes! thats the exact problem, sry for this 😅 I had one more doubt Is there a similar config to define host name for broker? could't find any in doc from what I understood about pinot arch, broker just look at zookeeper and serves queries So its url/host is only needed by the external client

I think

broker.host

Its not defined here : https://docs.pinot.apache.org/configuration-reference/broker Is there some other broker config doc?

actually I think it's probably

pinot.broker.hostname

Thanks! found the cli option too for it

-brokerHost