---
title: "Get Consumer Group"
method: GET
path: "/clusters/{cluster_id}/consumer-groups/{consumer_group_id}"
tags: ["Consumer Group (v3)"]
---

# Get Consumer Group

`GET /clusters/{cluster_id}/consumer-groups/{consumer_group_id}`

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Return the consumer group specified by the ``consumer_group_id``.

## Response `200`

The consumer group.

- ConsumerGroupData
  - `kind` string, required
  - `metadata` ResourceMetadata, required
    - `self` string, required
    - `resource_name` string, nullable
  - `cluster_id` string, required
  - `consumer_group_id` string, required
  - `is_simple` boolean, required
  - `partition_assignor` string, required
  - `state` string, required
  - `type` string, required
  - `is_mixed_consumer_group` boolean, required
  - `coordinator` Relationship, required
    - `related` string, required
  - `consumers` Relationship, required
    - `related` string, required
  - `lag_summary` Relationship, required
    - `related` string, required

## Other responses

- `400` — Indicates a bad request error. It could be caused by an unexpected request body format or other forms of request validation failure.
- `401` — Indicates a client authentication error. Kafka authentication failures will contain error code 40101 in the response body.
- `403` — Indicates a client authorization error. Kafka authorization failures will contain error code 40301 in the response body.
- `429` — Indicates that a rate limit threshold has been reached, and the client should retry again later.
- `5XX` — A server-side problem that might not be addressable from the client side. Retriable Kafka errors will contain error code 50003 in the response body.

## Changes

- **2026-07-17** (v3) `e783c1a5e2bd` — 2 info
  - added the required property `allOf[subschema #2]/is_mixed_consumer_group` to the response with the `200` status
  - added the required property `allOf[subschema #2]/type` to the response with the `200` status
- **2024-12-05** (v3) `d15e96a7e423` — 1 warning, 1 info
  - removed the optional property `allOf[subschema #2]/consumer` from the response with the `200` status
  - added the required property `allOf[subschema #2]/consumers` to the response with the `200` status
- **2023-08-08** (v3) `25e5259d1722` — 1 breaking, 2 info
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `400`
  - api operation id `getKafkaV3ConsumerGroup` removed and replaced with `getKafkaConsumerGroup`
  - added the non-success response with the status `403`
- **2023-08-08** (v3) `1be42847ed21` — 3 info
  - api operation id `getKafkaConsumerGroup` removed and replaced with `getKafkaV3ConsumerGroup`
  - added the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `400`
  - removed the non-success response with the status `403`
- **2023-03-10** (v3) `bb1cdf42f052` — 1 breaking, 2 info
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `400`
  - api operation id `getKafkaV3ConsumerGroup` removed and replaced with `getKafkaConsumerGroup`
  - added the non-success response with the status `403`

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/confluentinc/apis/rest-admin-api/changes/clusters/:cluster_id/consumer-groups/:consumer_group_id/get.md)

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