Consumer Groups

Group consumers together by setting the same value for the group.id configuration parameter when you start each consumer.

For example, if you create three consumers and give each of them the group ID clickstream_consumers, together these consumers form the consumer group clickstream_consumers. HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams does not generate IDs for consumer groups. You can create IDs that make sense for your purposes. You specify the group ID by using the group.id configuration parameter when you create a consumer. IDs are strings that can be up to 2457 bytes long.

You can even create a consumer group that consists of only one consumer. In such a case, the unique ID that identifies the group would be shared with no other consumers.

The following are the benefits to creating consumer groups: