Simple Kafka Consumer not receiving messages

Question

I am a newbie to Kafka and running a simple kafka consumer/producer example as given on KafkaConsumer and KafkaProducer. When I am running consumer from terminal, consumer is re

Answer 1

Run the consumer before running the producer so that the consumer registers with the group coordinator first.Later when u run the producer the consumer consumes the messages.The first time u run the consumer its registering with the group coordinator.In order to find out till what offset the consumer has consumed the messages use this kafka-consumer-offset-checker.bat --group group-1 --topic testing-1 --zookeeper localhost:2181 This shows the consumer has consumed which offset of the topic last.