A client id is used to logically identify an application. Ideally, multiple consumers belonging to the same application should use the same client id.
More concretely, metrics can be gathered per client and quotas in the future will be enforced by clientId. Aditya ________________________________________ From: Magnus Vojbacke [magnus.vojba...@digitalroute.com] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 4:44 AM To: users@kafka.apache.org Subject: Significance of SimpleConsumer id string Hi, The kafka.consumer.SimpleConsumer takes an "id: String” constructor parameter. What is the significance of this id? Are there any consequences or risks associated with using the exact same id for several consumers of the same topic/partition? /Magnus
