title: removing a kafka consumer group in zookeeper
body: <p>I'm using kafka_2.9.2-0.8.1.1 with zookeeper 3.4.6.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a utility that can automatically remove a consumer group from zookeeper? Or can I just remove everything under /consumers/[group_id] in zookeeper? If the latter, is there anything else I'm missing &amp; can this be done with a live system?</p>
  
  <p>Update:
  As of kafka version 2.3.0, there is a new utility:</p>
  
  <p><code>&gt; bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --delete --group my-group
  </code></p>
  
  <p>Related doc: <a href="http://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#basic_ops_consumer_lag" rel="noreferrer">http://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#basic_ops_consumer_lag</a></p>
  
  <p>See below for more discussion</p>