.. meta:: :description: An Apache Kafka consumer group is a set of consumers which cooperate to consume data from some topics. .. _kafka_consumer: |ak| Consumer ------------- An |ak-tm| Consumer is a client application that subscribes to (reads and processes) events. This section provides an overview of the |ak| consumer and an introduction to the configuration settings for tuning. .. include:: ../.hidden/docs-common/home/includes/cloud-platform-cta.rst .. include:: ../.hidden/docs-common/home/includes/clients/consumer.rst