Peter Vandenabeele created KAFKA-2110: -----------------------------------------
Summary: Doc: Clarify that max number of consumer instances is per consumer group Key: KAFKA-2110 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2110 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Environment: Online documentation: http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#introduction Reporter: Peter Vandenabeele Priority: Trivial Suggest to modify in the Introduction, section "Consumers" to clarify that the maximum amount of consumer instances is *per consumer group*: "Note however that there cannot be more consumer instances than partitions." => "Note however that there cannot be more consumer instances in a consumer group than partitions." and "... though this will mean only one consumer process." => "... though this will mean only one consumer process per consumer group." -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)