👍. Follow up, I set

instanceId=pinot-broker-1

and that looks like it did some "fun" things! The server's instance zk state is

{
  "id": "pinot-broker-1",
  "simpleFields": {
    "HELIX_ENABLED": "true",
    "HELIX_ENABLED_TIMESTAMP": "1600146975179",
    "HELIX_HOST": "pinot-broker-1",
    "HELIX_PORT": ""
  },
  "mapFields": {},
  "listFields": {
    "TAG_LIST": [
      "DefaultTenant_BROKER"
    ]
  }
}

Based on a bit of splunking, it looks like the

instanceId

has to conform to a strict form of

<type>_<hostname>_<port>

for internals to work?

It tries to derive host name and port name from instance Id if you font set host and port explicitly

@Joey Pereira do you mind pasting your full config ? There's a way to set host and port explicitly

Ended up => DM and digging further. This is what the configurations look like.

server

pinot.server.instance.id=Server_$HOSTNAME_$PORT
pinot.server.netty.host=$HOSTNAME
pinot.server.netty.port=$PORT

controller

controller.host=$HOSTNAME
controller.port=$PORT

broker

instanceId=Broker_$HOSTNAME_$PORT
pinot.broker.client.queryPort=$PORT

ok , so looks like the instance ID works fine for server, but probably not for broker yet (in the sense - we don't need a strict instanceid_host_port format)

🎉 seems to be working fine. huzza!

nice !