diff --git a/adala/environments/kafka.py b/adala/environments/kafka.py
index 429e4d3..67b2084 100644
--- a/adala/environments/kafka.py
+++ b/adala/environments/kafka.py
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ async def initialize(self):
             self.kafka_input_topic,
             bootstrap_servers=self.kafka_bootstrap_servers,
             value_deserializer=lambda v: json.loads(v.decode("utf-8")),
-            enable_auto_commit=False, # True by default which causes messages to be missed when using getmany()
+            #enable_auto_commit=False, # True by default which causes messages to be missed when using getmany()
             auto_offset_reset="earliest",
-            group_id=self.kafka_input_topic, # ensuring unique group_id to not mix up offsets between topics
+            #group_id=self.kafka_input_topic, # ensuring unique group_id to not mix up offsets between topics
         )
         await self.consumer.start()
 
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ async def get_data_batch(self, batch_size: Optional[int]) -> InternalDataFrame:
         batch = await self.consumer.getmany(
             timeout_ms=self.timeout_ms, max_records=batch_size
         )
-        await self.consumer.commit()
+        #await self.consumer.commit()
 
         if len(batch) == 0:
             batch_data = []
diff --git a/server/tasks/stream_inference.py b/server/tasks/stream_inference.py
index 79205c4..88a6b2c 100644
--- a/server/tasks/stream_inference.py
+++ b/server/tasks/stream_inference.py
@@ -140,9 +140,9 @@ async def async_process_streaming_output(
                 output_topic_name,
                 bootstrap_servers=settings.kafka_bootstrap_servers,
                 value_deserializer=lambda v: json.loads(v.decode("utf-8")),
-                enable_auto_commit=False, # True by default which causes messages to be missed when using getmany()
+                #enable_auto_commit=False, # True by default which causes messages to be missed when using getmany()
                 auto_offset_reset="earliest",
-                group_id=output_topic_name, # ensuring unique group_id to not mix up offsets between topics
+                #group_id=output_topic_name, # ensuring unique group_id to not mix up offsets between topics
             )
             await consumer.start()
             logger.info(f"consumer started {output_topic_name=}")
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ async def async_process_streaming_output(
     try:
         while not input_done.is_set():
             data = await consumer.getmany(timeout_ms=timeout_ms, max_records=batch_size)
-            await consumer.commit()
+            #await consumer.commit()
             for topic_partition, messages in data.items():
                 topic = topic_partition.topic
                 # messages is a list of ConsumerRecord