# How to delete a Kafka Consumer Group

**URL:** <https://ask.lenses.io/t/how-to-delete-a-kafka-consumer-group/187>\
**Category:** Apache Kafka\
**Created:** [February 13, 2024, 9:11am UTC](https://ask.lenses.io/t/how-to-delete-a-kafka-consumer-group/187 "2024-02-13T09:11:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![james1985](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@james1985](https://ask.lenses.io/u/james1985)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 9:11am UTC](https://ask.lenses.io/t/how-to-delete-a-kafka-consumer-group/187/1 "2024-02-13T09:11:33Z")

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I need to be able to delete Kafka Consumer Groups easily. How can I do this?

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**Author:** ![guillaume.ayme](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/ask.lenses.io/guillaume.ayme/32/64_2.png) [@guillaume.ayme](https://ask.lenses.io/u/guillaume.ayme)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2024, 9:15am UTC](https://ask.lenses.io/t/how-to-delete-a-kafka-consumer-group/187/2 "2024-02-13T09:15:01Z")

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You can remove the committed offset for each instance of your Consumer Group within [Lenses.io](http://Lenses.io). This is a new feature that will be released in Lenses 5.5. All this is protected with RBAC and auditing.

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