There is no built in mechanism to do this in Apache Kafka but if you can write consumer 1 and consumer 2 to share a common external offset storage then you may be able to build the functionality you seek.
-hans > On Nov 5, 2016, at 3:55 PM, kant kodali <kanth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry there is a typo. here is a restatement. > > Is there a way to make sure two consumers receive the same message from the > kafka broker in a atomic way? such that if consumer 1 gets a message > consumer 2 should also get that message and if consumer 1 fails for > whatever reason consumer 2 should also rollback to previous offset (to the > same offset as consumer 1) or invalidate or something like that. is that > possible?
