Single app with single consumer. Pulling ~30 records / min. When I enter 'kafka-topics ... --new-consumer --group <above group> --describe' it always tells me "Consumer group <name> is rebalancing".
If I enter "kafka-consumer-offset-checker ...--topic <name> --group <above name>"it responds with appropriate consumer position(s) but tells me "owner" is "none". I know my app is consuming records and if I stop/start it it picks up where it left off. Why is it marked as 'rebalancing'? Consumer setup: props.put("bootstrap.servers", Main.KAFKA_IP); props.put("group.id", groupId); props.put("key.deserializer", StringDeserializer.class.getName()); props.put("value.deserializer", StringDeserializer.class.getName()); props.put("session.timeout.ms", "60000"); props.put("request.timeout.ms", "60001"); props.put(ConsumerConfig.AUTO_OFFSET_RESET_CONFIG, "earliest"); Using 0.10.1.0 brokers 0.10.2.0-SNAPSHOT (current trunk) as client library