No. This is used for tracking consumer offsets. Kafka manages cleaning it up itself.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Snehalata Nagaje < snehalata.nag...@harbingergroup.com> wrote: > > But does it create folder for every message we put in kafka, for every > offset? > > And do we need to clean those folders? is there any configuration? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Crayford" <tcrayf...@heroku.com> > To: "Users" <users@kafka.apache.org> > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 6:11:03 PM > Subject: Re: what is use of __consumer_offsets > > Hi there, > > Kafka uses this topic internally for consumer offset commits. > > Thanks > > Tom Crayford > Heroku Kafka > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Snehalata Nagaje < > snehalata.nag...@harbingergroup.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I am using kafka 9 version with publish subscribe pattern, one consumer > is > > listening to particular topic > > > > What is use __consumer_offsets, folders created in log files? > > > > Does it have any impact on offset commiting? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > Snehalata > > >
