Kafka Connect consumer not using the group.id provided in connect-distributed.properties

[Srikrishna Alla]

Hi,

I am using Kafka Connect Sink Connector to consume messages from a Kafka
topic in a secure Kafka cluster. I have provided the group.id in
connect-distributed.properties. I am using security.protocol as
SASL_PLAINTEXT.

Here is definition of group id in connect-distributed.properties -
[sa9726@clpd355 conf]$ less connect-distributed.properties |grep -i group
group.id=alert

In the Kafka Connect log, its picking up the group.id in the properties
file -
2016-11-28 15:49:40 INFO  DistributedConfig : 165 - DistributedConfig
values:
        request.timeout.ms = 40000
        retry.backoff.ms = 100