diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c9506bb2..4d3f31f0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>com.pinterest.singer</groupId>
     <artifactId>singer-package</artifactId>
-    <version>0.8.0.26</version>
+    <version>0.8.0.27</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <description>Singer Logging Agent modules</description>
     <inceptionYear>2013</inceptionYear>
diff --git a/singer-commons/pom.xml b/singer-commons/pom.xml
index 9e497eed..6fb36da1 100644
--- a/singer-commons/pom.xml
+++ b/singer-commons/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.pinterest.singer</groupId>
     <artifactId>singer-package</artifactId>
-    <version>0.8.0.26</version>
+    <version>0.8.0.27</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <developers>
diff --git a/singer-commons/src/main/java/com/pinterest/singer/loggingaudit/client/AuditEventKafkaSender.java b/singer-commons/src/main/java/com/pinterest/singer/loggingaudit/client/AuditEventKafkaSender.java
index aee3af19..f97d00fa 100644
--- a/singer-commons/src/main/java/com/pinterest/singer/loggingaudit/client/AuditEventKafkaSender.java
+++ b/singer-commons/src/main/java/com/pinterest/singer/loggingaudit/client/AuditEventKafkaSender.java
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ public class AuditEventKafkaSender implements LoggingAuditEventSender {
   private Thread thread;
 
   /**
-   *  For each partition, track the number of sending failures happened to this partition.
+   *  List of PartitionInfo
    */
   private List<PartitionInfo> partitionInfoList = new ArrayList<>();
 
@@ -165,6 +165,14 @@ public class AuditEventKafkaSender implements LoggingAuditEventSender {
 
   private Map<LoggingAuditHeaders, Integer> eventTriedCount = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
 
+  /**
+   *  currentPartitionId specifies the partition of audit_event topic used to receive audit events.
+   *  The currentPartitionId will be reset in resetCurrentPartitionIdIfNeeded() method. This reduces
+   *  the number of TCP connections from audit client to the Kafka Cluster hosting the audit_event
+   *  topic.
+   */
+  private int currentPartitionId = -1;
+
   public AuditEventKafkaSender(KafkaSenderConfig config,
                                LinkedBlockingDeque<LoggingAuditEvent> queue,
                                LoggingAuditStage stage, String host, String name) {
@@ -174,6 +182,7 @@ public AuditEventKafkaSender(KafkaSenderConfig config,
     this.host = host;
     this.name = name;
     this.stopGracePeriodInSeconds = config.getStopGracePeriodInSeconds();
+    this.badPartitions.add(-1);
   }
 
 
@@ -185,24 +194,12 @@ public void setKafkaProducer(KafkaProducer<byte[], byte[]> kafkaProducer) {
     this.kafkaProducer = kafkaProducer;
   }
 
-  public int getAlternatePartition(int numOfPartitions) {
-    int randomPartition = 0;
-    int trial = 0;
-    while (trial < MAX_RETRIES_FOR_SELECTION_RANDOM_PARTITION) {
-      trial += 1;
-      randomPartition = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextInt(numOfPartitions);
-      if (!badPartitions.contains(randomPartition)) {
-        break;
-      }
-    }
-    return randomPartition;
-  }
-
   private void refreshPartitionIfNeeded() {
     // refresh every 30 seconds
     if (System.currentTimeMillis() - lastTimeUpdate > 1000 * PARTITIONS_REFRESH_INTERVAL_IN_SECONDS) {
       try {
         badPartitions.clear();
+        badPartitions.add(-1);
         partitionInfoList = this.kafkaProducer.partitionsFor(topic);
         lastTimeUpdate = System.currentTimeMillis();
         OpenTsdbMetricConverter.incr(
@@ -214,6 +211,36 @@ private void refreshPartitionIfNeeded() {
                 "host=" + host, "stage=" + stage.toString());
       }
     }
+    resetCurrentPartitionIdIfNeeded();
+  }
+
+  private void resetCurrentPartitionIdIfNeeded() {
+    if (partitionInfoList.size() == 0) {
+      currentPartitionId = -1;
+      return;
+    }
+    if (badPartitions.contains(currentPartitionId)){
+      int trial = 0;
+      while (trial < MAX_RETRIES_FOR_SELECTION_RANDOM_PARTITION) {
+        trial += 1;
+        int index = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextInt(partitionInfoList.size());
+        int randomPartition = partitionInfoList.get(index).partition();
+        if (!badPartitions.contains(randomPartition)) {
+          LOG.warn("Change current partition of audit event topic from {} to {}", currentPartitionId,
+              randomPartition);
+          currentPartitionId = randomPartition;
+          OpenTsdbMetricConverter.incr(
+              LoggingAuditClientMetrics.AUDIT_CLIENT_SENDER_KAFKA_CURRENT_PARTITION_RESET, 1,
+              "host=" + host, "stage=" + stage.toString());
+          return;
+        }
+      }
+      currentPartitionId =  partitionInfoList.get(ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextInt(
+          partitionInfoList.size())).partition();
+      LOG.warn("After {} trials, set current partition to {}",
+          MAX_RETRIES_FOR_SELECTION_RANDOM_PARTITION, currentPartitionId);
+
+    }
   }
 
   /**
@@ -236,9 +263,8 @@ public void run() {
         if (event != null) {
           try {
             value = serializer.serialize(event);
-            int partition = getAlternatePartition(partitionInfoList.size());
-            record = new ProducerRecord<>(this.topic, partition , null, value);
-            kafkaProducer.send(record, new KafkaProducerCallback(event, partition));
+            record = new ProducerRecord<>(this.topic, currentPartitionId , null, value);
+            kafkaProducer.send(record, new KafkaProducerCallback(event, currentPartitionId));
           } catch (TException e) {
             LOG.debug("[{}] failed to construct ProducerRecord because of serialization exception.",
                 Thread.currentThread().getName(), e);
diff --git a/singer-commons/src/main/java/com/pinterest/singer/loggingaudit/client/common/LoggingAuditClientMetrics.java b/singer-commons/src/main/java/com/pinterest/singer/loggingaudit/client/common/LoggingAuditClientMetrics.java
index 4b0cfdf7..5351a024 100644
--- a/singer-commons/src/main/java/com/pinterest/singer/loggingaudit/client/common/LoggingAuditClientMetrics.java
+++ b/singer-commons/src/main/java/com/pinterest/singer/loggingaudit/client/common/LoggingAuditClientMetrics.java
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ public class LoggingAuditClientMetrics {
 
   public static final String  AUDIT_CLIENT_SENDER_KAFKA_PARTITIONS_REFRESH_ERROR = "audit.client.sender.kafka.partitions_refresh_error";
   public static final String  AUDIT_CLIENT_SENDER_KAFKA_PARTITIONS_REFRESH_COUNT = "audit.client.sender.kafka.partitions_refresh_count";
+  public static final String AUDIT_CLIENT_SENDER_KAFKA_CURRENT_PARTITION_RESET = "audit.client.sender.kafka.current_partition_reset";
 
   public static final String AUDIT_CLIENT_SENDER_KAFKA_CALLBACK_EXCEPTION = "audit.client.sender.kafka.callback_exception";
 }
diff --git a/singer/pom.xml b/singer/pom.xml
index d5539c63..23970af3 100644
--- a/singer/pom.xml
+++ b/singer/pom.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.pinterest.singer</groupId>
         <artifactId>singer-package</artifactId>
-        <version>0.8.0.26</version>
+        <version>0.8.0.27</version>
         <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
     <licenses>
diff --git a/thrift-logger/pom.xml b/thrift-logger/pom.xml
index efdd501c..41d24f7b 100644
--- a/thrift-logger/pom.xml
+++ b/thrift-logger/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.pinterest.singer</groupId>
     <artifactId>singer-package</artifactId>
-    <version>0.8.0.26</version>
+    <version>0.8.0.27</version>
     <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <artifactId>thrift-logger</artifactId>