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I am trying to read from multiple kafka brokers using KafkaIO on apache beam. The default option for offset management is to the kafka partition itself (no longer using zookeper from kafka >0.9). With this setup, when i restart the job/pipeline, there is issue with duplicate and missing records.

From what i read, the best way to handle this is to manage offset to external data stores. Is it possible to do this with current version of apache beam and KafkaIO? I am using 2.2.0 version right now.

And, after reading from kafka,i will write it to BigQuery. Is there a setup in KafkaIO where I can set the committed message only after i insert the message to BigQuery? I can only find auto commit setup right now.

Vadim Kotov
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In Dataflow, you can update a job rather than restarting from scratch. The new job resumes from the last checkpointed state, ensuring exactly-once processing. This works for KafkaIO source as well. The auto-commit option in Kafka consumer configuration helps but it is not atomic with Dataflow internal state, which implies restarted job might have small fraction of duplicate or missing messages.

Raghu Angadi
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