Storing and managing offsets by broker will leave high pressure on the brokers which will affect the performance of the cluster.
You can use the advanced consumer APIs, then you can get the offsets either from zookeeper or the __consumer_offsets__ topic. On the other hand, if you use the simple consumer APIs, you mean to manage offsets yourself, then you should monitor them yourself, simple and plain, right? 2015-04-22 14:36 GMT+08:00 Stevo Slavić <ssla...@gmail.com>: > Hello Apache Kafka community, > > Please correct me if wrong, AFAIK currently (Kafka 0.8.2.x) offset > management responsibility is mainly client/consumer side responsibility. > > Wouldn't it be better if it was broker side only responsibility? > > E.g. now if one wants to use custom offset management, any of the Kafka > monitoring tools cannot see the offsets - they would need to use same > custom client implementation which is practically not possible. > > Kind regards, > Stevo Slavic. >
