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JIRA: here [Change the link from KAFKA-1 to your own ticket] 

Motivation

We have had many situations where clients have been throttled due to exceeding their produce/fetch or request quota. Unfortunately, with possibly varying quotas assigned across clients, the only means of preforming capacity planning around throttling requires dynamically fetching the Zk quota config. While this can be done using the AdminClient under KIP-546 it leads to disjoint data sources - requiring additional work to implement alerting and capacity planning for clients nearing their quota. 

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