If it is a one time thing, you could run the kafka consumer script which has the --from-beginning option, and redirect the output as a socketstream and consume in flink.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Dominique, > > have you tried setting the Kafka property props.put("auto.offset.reset", > "smallest");? > > Cheers, > Till > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Dominique Rondé < > dominique.ro...@codecentric.de> wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> i have a kafka topic with messages from the last 7 days. Now i have a new >> flink streaming process and like to consume the messages from the >> beginning. If I just bring up the topology, the consumer starts from this >> moment and not from beginning. >> >> THX >> >> Dominique >> > >