Docs Self-Managed Reference rpk Commands rpk group rpk group seek You are viewing the Self-Managed v24.3 beta documentation. We welcome your feedback at the Redpanda Community Slack #beta-feedback channel. To view the latest available version of the docs, see v24.2. 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. Back to top × Simple online edits For simple changes, such as fixing a typo, you can edit the content directly on GitHub. Edit on GitHub Or, open an issue to let us know about something that you want us to change. Open an issue Contribution guide For extensive content updates, or if you prefer to work locally, read our contribution guide . Was this helpful? thumb_up thumb_down group Ask in the community mail Share your feedback group_add Make a contribution rpk group list rpk help