Thanks Mayuresh.
I was able to use Zookeeper's zkCli.sh and find the offsets / owners for the
consumer that's no longer using a topicand delete them!
Issue solved. thanks again.> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:17:12 -0700
> Subject: Re: Drop Topic from Consumer
> From: gharatmayures...@gmail.com
> To: users@kafka.apache.org
>
> Is it a wildcard consumer or you specify the topics manually?
> You can do this by modifying the znode in zookeeper for that consumer group.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mayuresh
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Casey Daniell <casey_dani...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > We are using Kafka 0.8.1 and have a Consumer that used to pull multiple
> > topics. One of these topics is no longer needed by this consumer/group, so
> > when I look at
> > /usr/local/kafka/bin/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.ConsumerOffsetChecker
> > --zkconnect localhost --group <ServerName>
> > We see the LAG for this measurement is high, but we know why. Is there
> > anyway to let ZK know that this consumer group will never catch up for this
> > topic, since it's not consumed any longer?
> >
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> -Regards,
> Mayuresh R. Gharat
> (862) 250-7125