title: Apache flink-kafka Adding multiple consumers in single flink-kafka consumer group
body: <pre><code>I am reading a "ABC" topic which have 5 partitions 
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  <p>but actually when i created a consumer group (i.e. Flinkkafkaconsumer09)it has only one consumer instance and that consumer is consuming all partitions.</p>
  
  <pre><code>I am trying to have a consumer group with 5 
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  <p>consumer instances in it cause,I need 1 consumer for 1 partition.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Any suggestions to help me out! 
  
  
  This is what I am getting 
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  <p>GROUP                          TOPIC                          PARTITION  CURRENT-OFFSET  LOG-END-OFFSET  LAG             OWNER
      console-consumer-81434         CT9                            0          1               1               0               <strong>consumer-1</strong><em>/127.0.0.1
      console-consumer-81434         CT9                            1          7               7               0               <strong>consumer-1</strong></em>/127.0.0.1
      console-consumer-81434         CT9                            2          1               1               0               <strong>consumer-1</strong><em>/127.0.0.1
      console-consumer-81434         CT9                            3          3               3               0               <strong>consumer-1</em></strong>/127.0.0.1
      console-consumer-81434         CT9                            4          5               5               0               <strong>consumer-1</strong>_/127.0.0.1</p>
  
  <pre><code>Expected Result --&gt;(See the Owner COlumn)
  
  GROUP                          TOPIC                          PARTITION  CURRENT-OFFSET  LOG-END-OFFSET  LAG             OWNER
  console-consumer-81434         CT9                            0          1               1               0               **consumer-1_**/127.0.0.1
  console-consumer-81434         CT9                            1          7               7               0               **consumer-2_**/127.0.0.1
  console-consumer-81434         CT9                            2          1               1               0               **consumer-3**_/127.0.0.1
  console-consumer-81434         CT9                            3          3               3               0               **consumer-4**_/127.0.0.1
  console-consumer-81434         CT9                            4          5               5               0               **consumer-5**_/127.0.0.1
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