When the consumer (which is a very simple confluent-kafka-python consumer), we see this log message after the assignment %6|1739802885.947|GETSUBSCRIPTIONS|<consumer id>#consumer-1| [thrd:main]: Telemetry client instance id changed from AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA to <some random string> I tried running the consumer locally (in contrast to the Kubernetes cluster) and see no such logs. I tried googling for this log message but found no bugs or help avoiding this (though I am not the only person with such logs) Continue reading...