Consumer group and flink

[Vishwas Siravara]

Hi guys,

Is it necessary to specify a consumer group name for a kafka streaming job when checkpointing is enabled? Since the offsets are not stored in kafka how does specifying a consumer group help ?

Best,
Vishwas 

[Vishwas Siravara]

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 1:40 PM Vishwas Siravara <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi guys,

Is it necessary to specify a consumer group name for a kafka streaming job when checkpointing is enabled? Since the offsets are not stored in kafka how does specifying a consumer group help ?

Best,
Vishwas