Kafka Modular Input - Can it retrieve messages from channel if it has been offline for brief period?

[sarthakb]

We have deployed kafka_ta modular app on a Universal Forwarder and pointed to an indexer. It works perfectly fine.

Meanwhile - while discussing about DR for universal forwarder - the following question came up -

If kafka_ta app is down for brief period, when it comes up - will it be able to retrieve messages from the point - where it went down? - in other words - will it miss any messages if it is down for brief period?

[Damien_Dallimor · Accepted solution]

It should as checkpointing is managed by Zookeeper.