Thanks Guozhang for the detailed explanation.
It was really helpful.
Regards,
Rahul Misra
-Original Message-
From: Guozhang Wang [mailto:wangg...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 6:25 AM
To: users@kafka.apache.org
Subject: Re: Frequent Consumer Rebalance/ Commit fail
Hello Rahul,
This "CommitFailedException" usually means that the consumer group
coordinator that sits on the server side has decided that this consumer is
"failed" from the heartbeat protocol and hence kicked out of the group, and
later when it sees a commit-offset request from this consumer it wi
