rpk group seek

Modify a group’s current offsets.

This command allows you to modify a group’s offsets. Sometimes, you may need to rewind a group if you had a mistaken deploy, or fast-forward a group if it is falling behind on messages that can be skipped.

The --to option allows you to seek to the start of partitions, end of partitions, or after a specific timestamp. The default is to seek any topic previously committed. Using --topics allows to you set commits for only the specified topics; all other commits will remain untouched. Topics with no commits will not be committed unless allowed with --allow-new-topics.

The --to-group option allows you to seek to commits that are in another group. This is a merging operation: if g1 is consuming topics A and B, and g2 is consuming only topic B, rpk group seek g1 --to-group g2 will update g1’s commits for topic B only. The --topics flag can be used to further narrow which topics are updated. Unlike --to, all non-filtered topics are committed, even topics not yet being consumed, meaning --allow-new-topics is not needed.

The --to-file option allows to seek to offsets specified in a text file with the following format:

[TOPIC] [PARTITION] [OFFSET]
[TOPIC] [PARTITION] [OFFSET]

Each line contains the topic, the partition, and the offset to seek to. As with the prior options, --topics allows filtering which topics are updated. Similar to --to-group, all non-filtered topics are committed, even topics not yet being consumed, meaning --allow-new-topics is not needed.

The --to, --to-group, and --to-file options are mutually exclusive. If you are not authorized to describe or read some topics used in a group, you will not be able to modify offsets for those topics.

Examples

Seek group G to June 1st, 2021:

rpk group seek g --to 1622505600

or

rpk group seek g --to 1622505600000

or

rpk group seek g --to 1622505600000000000

Seek group X to the commits of group Y topic foo:

rpk group seek X --to-group Y --topics foo

Seek group G’s topics foo, bar, and biz to the end:

rpk group seek G --to end --topics foo,bar,biz

Seek group G to the beginning of a topic it was not previously consuming:

rpk group seek G --to start --topics foo --allow-new-topics

Usage

rpk group seek [GROUP] --to (start|end|timestamp) --to-group ... --topics ... [flags]

Flags

Value Type Description

--allow-new-topics

-

Allow seeking to new topics not currently consumed (implied with --to-group or --to-file).

-h, --help

-

Help for seek.

--to

string

Where to seek (start, end, unix second | millisecond | nanosecond).

--to-file

string

Seek to offsets as specified in the file.

--to-group

string

Seek to the commits of another group.

--topics

strings

Only seek these topics, if any are specified.

--config

string

Redpanda or rpk config file; default search paths are /var/lib/redpanda/.config/rpk/rpk.yaml, $PWD/redpanda.yaml, and /etc/redpanda/redpanda.yaml.

-X, --config-opt

stringArray

Override rpk configuration settings. See rpk -X or execute rpk -X help for inline detail or rpk -X list for terser detail.

--profile

string

Profile to use. See rpk profile for more details.

-v, --verbose

-

Enable verbose logging.