Overview of Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka consumer groups

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A consumer group is a set of consumers that cooperate to consume data from various topics. The consumers in a consumer group all have the same group.id. To create a new consumer group, you can use the Kafka command-line tools. Or, you can start a new consumer application with a group-id set to a consumer-group ID in the consumer properties file. If the specified group-id does not exist, Kafka creates a new consumer group.

You can also set other configuration options, such as offset management settings, by using the client properties file.

Managed Service for Apache Kafka provides APIs to view, update, and delete consumer groups within Google Cloud.

What's next?

• View a consumer group.

• List a consumer group.

• Edit a consumer group.

• Delete a consumer group.

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