https://devops-monk.com/tags/replay/Recent content in Replay on Devops MonkHugoen-usMon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/spring-kafka/seeking-offsets/Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://devops-monk.com/tutorials/spring-kafka/seeking-offsets/Why Seek Instead of Reset? Offset management (auto-commit vs manual acknowledgment) controls when offsets advance during normal processing. Seeking is different: it lets you reposition the consumer to any offset — past or future — programmatically, without touching the committed offset in __consumer_offsets. Common scenarios: Replay from the beginning — reprocess all historical events after a bug fix Resume from a known-good offset — skip a poison pill that’s blocking the consumer Time-based replay — reprocess everything since yesterday 09:00 Startup positioning — always start from the end, ignoring backlog on first launch How Kafka Seeking Works flowchart LR subgraph Broker["