Page History

...

For the effectiveness of the KIP, consumer with member.name set will not send leave group request when they go offline. It is because the current proposed rebalance protocol will trigger rebalance with this intermittent in-and-out which is not ideal. 

...

For the very first version, we hope to make membership transferring logic and human handling simple enough. We will define only one command line APIs API to help us better manage the groups:

...

forceStaticRebalance will trigger one rebalance immediately on static membership, which is mainly used for fast scale down/host replacement cases (we detect consumer failure faster than the session timeout). Error will be returned if

...