I use confluent-kafka v1.3.0 and I have following problem with consumer group session timeout. My config looks like: c['KAFKA'] = { 'bootstrap.servers': 'host.docker.internal:9104', 'consumer': { 'group.id': 'consumer', 'enable.auto.commit': True, 'default.topic.config': { 'auto.offset.reset': 'earliest }, 'heartbeat.interval.ms': 100000, 'max.poll.interval.ms': 300000, 'session.timeout.ms': 100000 }, } and logic in code like: consumer.subscribe('database_changes') with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=500) as executor: while True: msg = consumer.poll(100) if msg is not None: executor.submit(process_message, msg) Code in function process message waits a few ms because it's really simple logic. Everything works good but every moment I got this error: {"asctime":"2020-04-27 08:42:25,759","levelname":"WARNING","name":"services.kafka","message":"SESSTMOUT [rdkafka#consumer-2] [thrd:main]: Consumer group session timed out (in join-state started) after 30131 ms without a successful response from the group coordinator (broker 0, last error was Success): revoking assignment and rejoining group"} these rebalacing greatly hampers the whole process. Does anyone have an idea of what can be wrongly set? I suspect a not working heartbeat, but I don't know how it verify or better fix. Thanks Continue reading...