Discuss with upstream if output can be standardized

[JensRantil]

...or alternative ways to avoid having to parse the output. Are there Go clients we can use to extract the same group information, perhaps?

[JensRantil]

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[JewelPengin]

Honestly it wouldn't be that hard. All the things you see are completely contained here - https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/core/src/main/scala/kafka/admin/ConsumerGroupCommand.scala - as a Java/Scala/Groovy/[insert flavor here] developer it would be very easy to submit a PR to that codebase.

Furthermore, the easiest change would be to allow the support of multiple consumer groups per call (or all of them even). This would significantly reduce the scalability issues that this project currently has.