Okay, let me ask this another way: How can I detect if a partition has no consumer? Is there any way to tell outside of manually checking data post-consumer?
Thanks, Matt -----Original Message----- From: Bateman, Matt [mailto:mabate...@ebay.com] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 5:09 PM To: kafka-users@incubator.apache.org Subject: KAFKA-264 Hi, How likely is the scenario where a rebalance might leave some partitions without a consumer? Described here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Central+Consumer+Coordination. It looks like KAFKA-264 would address this? Thanks, Matt