Configure Clients

• Consumer
  • How consumers fetch messages
  • Consumer groups
  • Topic subscription best practices
  • Groups and rebalance protocols
    • Overview of the rebalance protocols
    • How a group’s rebalance protocol is determined
    • Upgrading or switching consumer protocols
      • Before migrating to the consumer rebalance protocol
      • How to do a rolling deployment
      • How to do an empty group restart
  • Offset management
    • Committing offsets and reset policy
    • Auto-commit offsets
    • Manual commit API
    • Asynchronous commits
    • Dealing with commit failures and rebalances
    • Sync vs async: safety and performance tradeoffs
    • Coordinating offset commits with external systems
    • Exactly-once processing and transactions
  • Kafka consumer configuration
    • Core configuration properties
    • Consumer rebalance protocol configuration
    • Configure a consumer for classic rebalance protocol
  • Configure partition assignment
    • For the new consumer rebalance protocol
    • For the classic rebalance protocol
  • Message handling
  • Kafka consumer group tool
    • List consumer groups
    • Describe groups
    • Reset offsets
  • Consumer examples
  • Related content
• Share Consumers
  • Key capabilities and differences from consumer groups
  • Configuration for client developers
  • Manage share groups
  • Monitor share groups
    • Share partition lag
  • Troubleshooting share groups
    • INVALID_RECORD_STATE errors
    • Production tuning recommendations
  • Manage access
    • Cloud Console
      • Grant share group permissions
      • Grant topic permissions
    • Confluent CLI
      • Grant share group permissions
      • Grant topic permissions
  • Using the KafkaShareConsumer for Share Groups
    • Configuration
    • Subscribing to Topics
    • Polling for Records and Liveness
    • Record Delivery and Acknowledgement
      • Implicit Acknowledgement
      • Explicit Acknowledgement
    • Multithreaded Processing
    • Transactional Records and Isolation Level
  • Limits
• Producer
  • Kafka Producer Configuration
    • Core Configuration
    • Message Durability
    • Message Ordering
    • Batching and Compression
    • Queuing Limit
  • Producer examples
  • Learn More
• Configuration Properties
  • Recommendations
  • Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Connection Requirements
    • TLS SNI extension requirement
    • Manage TLS certificates
  • Client Prerequisites and Version Requirements
  • JVM settings for Java clients
  • Cluster upgrades and error handling
  • Client configuration properties
  • Why tuning client configurations is important
  • Configuration categories
  • Configuration properties
    • Before you modify properties
    • Common properties
    • Producer properties
    • Consumer properties
  • OpenId Connect (OIDC) and token retry behavior
    • Java Client
    • Schema Registry Java Client
    • JavaScript Client for Kafka
    • Schema Registry JavaScript Client
    • librdkafka derived (non-Java) clients