Hi Marina, Check slide 32 in this presentation <http://www.slideshare.net/jjkoshy/offset-management-in-kafka>.
Hope this helps. Thanks, Raja. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Marina <ppi...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > Thanks, Stevo, for the quick reply, > Yes, I understand how to do this programmatically - but I would like to be > able to do this manually from a command line, just as before I was able to > do this in the Zookeeper shell. I don't want to write and run a Java app > just to set an offset :) > > [unless, of course, this is the only way to do this.....] > > thanks! > Marina > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Stevo Slavić <ssla...@gmail.com> > To: users@kafka.apache.org; Marina <ppi...@yahoo.com> > Cc: > Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 9:33 AM > Subject: Re: how to modify offsets stored in Kafka in 0.8.2.1 version? > > Hello Marina, > > There's Kafka API to fetch and commit offsets > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Committing+and+fetching+consumer+offsets+in+Kafka > - maybe it will work for you. > > Kind regards, > Stevo Slavic. > > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Marina <ppi...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > in older Kafka versions where offsets were stored in Zookeeper - I could > > manually update the value of the Zookeeper's node: > > > > > /consumers/<consumer_group_name>/offsets/<topic_name>/<partition_number>/<offset_value>. > > > > In 0.8.2.1 - there are no values in offsets anymore, but there is a new > > topic, > > __consumer_offsets, where as I understand offsets are tracked now. > > > > the ConsumerOffsetChecker tool seems to be able to get the offsets values > > from this topic , since I see correct value running it. > > So, how do I access this info myself? > > > > > > I tried: > > > > ./kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic > > __consumer_offsets --from-beginning > > > > but it does not show anything.... > > Also, how would I change the offset? I need to do this sometimes if I > want > > to skip/ignore some messages and just advance offset manually. > > > > thanks, > > Marina > > > -- Thanks, Raja.