Kafka Consumer Behaviour

[ravi singh <rr...@gmail.com>]

I was writing Kafka consumer and I have a query related to consumer
processes.

I have a consumer with groupId="testGroupId" and using the same groupId I
consume from multiple topics say, "topic1" and "topic2".

Also, assume "topic1" is already created on broker whereas "topic2" is not
yet created.

Now If I start the consumer I see consumer threads for "topic1" (which is
already created) in zookeeper nodes, but I do not see any consumer
thread(s) for  "topic2".

My question is, will the consumer thread(s) for "topic2" will be created
only after we create the topic on broker?


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*Regards,*
*Ravi*