Hi, Thanks Can you explain little bit whats happening underneath? Does Kafka creates different group.id's by default when group.id's are not set ? When specified a group only one consumer can consumer from the group the for a particular partition right?
Thanks! On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Matthias J. Sax <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, you can do that. > > -Matthias > > > > On 3/30/17 6:09 PM, kant kodali wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Can multiple Kafka consumers read from the same partition of same topic > by > > default? By default, I mean since group.id is not mandatory I am > wondering > > if I spawn multiple kafka consumers without specifying any group.id and > > give them the same topic and partition name will they be able to read > from > > the same partition? I understand that If I give different group names for > > each Kafka consumer then all the consumers can read from the same > partition. > > > > Thanks! > > > >
