# Setup tab

![Setup tab for Kafka Offset job](/files/QtMiIvXi8ylS3y1lsr0o)

In this tab, define the connections used for receiving messages, topics to which you want to subscribe, and the consumer group for the topics.

| Option                | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Bootstrap servers** | Specify the **Bootstrap servers** from which you want to receive the Kafka streaming data.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| **Topics**            | Enter the name of each Kafka topic from which you want to consume streaming data (messages). You must include all topics that you want to consume.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| **Consumer group**    | <p>Enter the name of the group of which you want this consumer to be a member. Each <strong>Kafka Consumer</strong> step will start a single thread for consuming.</p><p>When part of a consumer group, each consumer is assigned a subset of the partitions from topics it has subscribed to, which locks those partitions. Each instance of a <strong>Kafka Consumer</strong> step will only run a single consumer thread.</p> |


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