What is SyncGroup?
After JoinGroup, the elected leader pushes computed assignments via SyncGroup, and every member waits for the response to learn its own assignment. A rebalance that completes JoinGroup but hangs here usually means the leader is taking too long to compute assignments (large groups, slow custom assignors).
Wire Diagram
Response Header
message_size
int32 · 4B
correlation_id
int32 · 4B
SyncGroupResponse v1
ThrottleTimeMs
int32 · 4B
ErrorCode
int16 · 2B
Assignment
bytes
Schema & Example
Schema { "ThrottleTimeMs": int32, "ErrorCode": int16, "Assignment": bytes }
Example { "ThrottleTimeMs": 0, "ErrorCode": 0, "Assignment": "<assignment>" }