https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/plug-ins/39075/consume-kafka-service-logsHi Team, We are using Kafka Tools plugin to utilize consume and Publish Kafka services. We can able to perform publish Kafka service without any issues. But when comes to Consume Kafka we have questions as follows, Consume Kafka service showsen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/150116?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 21 Jul 2025 04:03:35 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:c78b52c2-35ee-4e3d-835e-712fe54a9ab6kapilsharma<p>Hi <a href="/members/shantanub">Shantanu Bhowmick</a>&nbsp;,&nbsp;<br /><br />1. If you are using on-premise server, you can view the Kafka logs over here:&nbsp;<code>&lt;APPIAN_HOME&gt;/services/data/kafka-logs<br />but if it&#39;s a on-cloud server, then you can look into serverLogs.</code></p> <p>2.&nbsp;A <strong>Topic</strong> is a named stream of records whereas&nbsp;<strong>Group ID</strong>&nbsp;is a unique string that identifies a consumer group.</p> <p>3.&nbsp;Kafka consumers receive data from brokers as byte arrays. A <strong>deserializer</strong> is essential to convert these bytes back into a usable format, such as a string or a complex object.</p> <p>4. As far as I know,&nbsp;<code>TM_Transaction</code> variable in your process model is not being populated with the consumed message data because the <strong>Kafka Tools plugin is designed to write consumed messages directly to a database table</strong>, not to a process variable.<br /><br />Hope it helps..</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>