Hi Jason,
The downside to use client-ids is there is no certitude that they will be
increasing.
So in case there is already as many consumers as partitions, additional
consumers can change the partitions assignment.
This lead to rebalances which are unnecessary as partitions are already
Hi Florian,
I'm not totally sure I understand the problem. The consumer id consists of
the clientId configured by the user with a UUID appended to it. If the
clientId has not been passed in configuration, we use "consumer-{n}" for it
where n is incremented for every new consumer instance. Is the
Hi Kafka Team,
I would like to have your opinion before creating a new JIRA.
I'm working with the Java Consumer API. The current partition assignors use
the consumer ids to sort members before assigning partitions.
This works pretty well as long as all consumers are started into the same
JVM
