KIP-496 — Administrative API to delete consumer offsets

Accepted Kafka 2.4 AdminConsumer

Adds AdminClient#deleteConsumerGroupOffsets() to allow deletion of committed offsets for a stopped consumer group on specific partitions, without deleting the group itself. Previously operators could only delete entire groups or wait for retention-based expiry; there was no way to selectively reset offsets on individual partitions for a dead group.

Protocol Impact

OffsetDelete

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