Hi, If you change the offsets while at least one consumer instance is running, the offsets in zookeeper will be overwritten. To safely overwrite the offsets, you need to shutdown all consumers in that group.
Thanks, Neha On Thursday, October 4, 2012, Guy Doulberg <guy.doulb...@conduit.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > What will happen, if while having consumers running, I change the offset kept in the zookeeper? > > Will the consumer get updated? > Or will it override the zookeeper offsets? > > I am asking it, because I have an idea that might be useful to my clients, I want to supply them a web ui from which they could change the offset their consumer is currently running on.... > > > Thanks, > > >