You have to delete the znode from zookeeper for your consumer group https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/0.8.1/core/src/main/scala/kafka/consumer/ConsoleConsumer.scala#L181
/******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> ********************************************/ On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Yang <teddyyyy...@gmail.com> wrote: > we are trying to achive the equivalent of > bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh > > > we tried " props.put("auto.offset.reset", "smallest"); > > but it still doesn't work. > > how can I achieve --from-beginning in java code? thanks > > (we are using 8.1.1) >