--- title: Reset Consumer Offset in Kafka | daily.dev description: Kafka consumer offsets track which messages have been read from topic partitions. This guide demonstrates three methods to reset these offsets: using the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/reset-consumer-offset-in-kafka-vaduzk8bi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Reset Consumer Offset in Kafka | daily.dev og:description: Kafka consumer offsets track which messages have been read from topic partitions. This guide demonstrates three methods to reset these offsets: using the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/reset-consumer-offset-in-kafka-vaduzk8bi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vaDuZk8bi.png og:image:alt: Reset Consumer Offset in Kafka og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Reset Consumer Offset in Kafka **[Baeldung](https://daily.dev/sources/baeldung)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Kafka consumer offsets track which messages have been read from topic partitions. This guide demonstrates three methods to reset these offsets: using the kafka-consumer-groups CLI tool with options like --to-earliest or --to-datetime, implementing ConsumerRebalanceListener to programmatically seek to specific timestamps or positions, and using the AdminClient API to alter offsets for any consumer group. Each approach includes working code examples with Docker-based Kafka setup, producer/consumer implementations, and integration tests using testcontainers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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