You currently can't use ConsumeKafkaRecord_0_10 to consume Confluent Avro. The Confluent Avro is a special Avro format that contains additional information and cannot be read by regular Avro readers. On the master branch of Apache NiFi there is support for integration with Confluent, there will be a new option in the "Schema Access Strategy" for "Confluent Content-Encoded Schema Reference" which will allow it to read the Confluent Avro. ... View more