It will continue from the latest offset. offset is a increasing, contiguous sequence number per partition.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Imre Nagi <imre.nagi2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm new in kafka. So, I have a question related to kafka offset. > > From the kafka documentation in here > <http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html>, it said : > > > The Kafka cluster retains all published messages—whether or not they have > > been consumed—for a configurable period of time. For example if the log > > retention is set to two days, then for the two days after a message is > > published it is available for consumption, after which it will be > discarded > > to free up space. > > > After the message has been discarded, let say that we receive some new > message. What is the offset of the new message? Will it restart from 0 or > continue the latest offset? > > Thanks, > Imre >
