https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Kafka-Consumer-throwing-error-message-quot-commit-cannot-be/m-p/188822#M150915 <P>Can you please try create a topic and then use Kafka Console Producer to post data to that topic. Once done, please use Console Producer to read data to confirm if it works end to end without using NiFi</P> Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:33:11 GMT mayank_rathi 2017-07-19T22:33:11Z