https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Kafka-spark-structuredstreaming/m-p/222477#M184347 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/69228/subbiramreddyp.html" nodeid="69228">@subbiram Padala</A> </P><P>Check the history server to confirm that the kafka-clients jar is included in your classpath. If it is not there, the following is the cause of your error most likely:</P><P> The missing class from the error is contained in the jar, and that error will arise of the jar is not included when starting the spark shell or a spark-submit. You can include it with <CODE>--driver-class-path</CODE>, the jar should be located in the libs folder in your kafka-brokers install folder. </P> Thu, 17 May 2018 01:23:43 GMT pbubnar7 2018-05-17T01:23:43Z