Hey Xavier, Within a consumer group, you can only have as many consumers as you have partitions in a topic. If you start more consumers than partitions within the same group, they will just be idle.
Thanks, Subhash Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 13, 2018, at 8:30 AM, Xavier Noria <f...@hashref.com> wrote: > > Can a consumer group that listens to one topic, which has only one > partition, have multiple consumer instances in different > processes/machines? Or can you have at most as many consumer instances as > partitions?
