diff --git a/code/sonalyze/daemon/daemon.go b/code/sonalyze/daemon/daemon.go
index 46066c20..7ab98900 100644
--- a/code/sonalyze/daemon/daemon.go
+++ b/code/sonalyze/daemon/daemon.go
@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@
 //   Kafka channel for the clusters found in the data directory.  It should be the only consumer
 //   for those data.  The broker-address is normally on the form hostname:port.
 //
+// -kafka-group <group-name>
+//
+//   For Kafka, use this consumer group name (mostly useful for testing and advanced usage).  Once
+//   ingested for a particular consumer group, a message will not be ingested again for the group
+//   even if the client is restarted.
+//
 // -rest-api <interface>
 //
 //   The daemon will present various APIs on the given interface (in the form interface:port,
@@ -112,6 +118,7 @@ import (
 const (
 	defaultListenPort = 8087
 	logTag            = "jobanalyzer/sonalyze"
+	defaultKafkaGroup = "jobanalyzer-ingest"
 )
 
 // MT: Immutable (no mutator operations) and thread-safe.
@@ -122,14 +129,15 @@ type DaemonCommand struct {
 	DevArgs
 	VerboseArgs
 	DatabaseArgs
-	getAuthFile  string
-	postAuthFile string
-	kafkaBroker  string
-	restAPI      string
-	insert       bool
-	v0           bool
-	v1           bool
-	v2           bool
+	getAuthFile   string
+	postAuthFile  string
+	kafkaBroker   string
+	consumerGroup string
+	restAPI       string
+	insert        bool
+	v0            bool
+	v1            bool
+	v2            bool
 
 	getAuthenticator  *auth.Authenticator
 	postAuthenticator *auth.Authenticator
@@ -150,7 +158,8 @@ func (dc *DaemonCommand) Add(fs *CLI) {
 	fs.StringVar(&dc.getAuthFile, "analysis-auth", "", "Authentication info `filename` for analysis access")
 	fs.StringVar(&dc.postAuthFile, "upload-auth", "", "Authentication info `filename` for data upload access")
 	fs.StringVar(&dc.getAuthFile, "password-file", "", "Alias for -analysis-auth")
-	fs.StringVar(&dc.kafkaBroker, "kafka", "", "Ingest data from this broker for all known clusters")
+	fs.StringVar(&dc.kafkaBroker, "kafka", "", "Ingest data from this `broker` for all known clusters")
+	fs.StringVar(&dc.consumerGroup, "kafka-group", defaultKafkaGroup, "Kafka consumer `group name`")
 	fs.StringVar(&dc.restAPI, "rest-api", "", "Serve /api/v0, /api/v1 and /api/v2 on this interface:port")
 	fs.BoolVar(&dc.insert, "insert", false, "Enable the /api/v1/insert points")
 	fs.BoolVar(&dc.v0, "v0", false, "Enable the v0 API")
@@ -189,6 +198,9 @@ func (dc *DaemonCommand) Validate() error {
 	if dc.insert && dc.DatabaseURI() != "" {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Can't have both -database-uri and -insert")
 	}
+	if dc.consumerGroup != defaultKafkaGroup && dc.kafkaBroker == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Can't have -kafka-group without -kafka")
+	}
 	return nil
 }
 
diff --git a/code/sonalyze/daemon/kafka.go b/code/sonalyze/daemon/kafka.go
index 8a7be911..a951c19e 100644
--- a/code/sonalyze/daemon/kafka.go
+++ b/code/sonalyze/daemon/kafka.go
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ const (
 
 // This runs on a goroutine - one goroutine per cluster, just to be a little resilient.
 
-func runKafka(kafkaBroker, cluster string, ds db.AppendablePersistentDataProvider) {
+func runKafka(kafkaBroker, cluster, consumerGroup string, ds db.AppendablePersistentDataProvider) {
 	defer ds.Close()
 	handler := newClusterHandler(cluster, ds)
 	cl, err := kgo.NewClient(
 		kgo.SeedBrokers(kafkaBroker),
-		kgo.ConsumerGroup("jobanalyzer-ingest"),
+		kgo.ConsumerGroup(consumerGroup),
 		kgo.ConsumeTopics(
 			handler.add(tySample),
 			handler.add(tySysinfo),
diff --git a/code/sonalyze/daemon/perform.go b/code/sonalyze/daemon/perform.go
index fc6e8365..d88ede65 100644
--- a/code/sonalyze/daemon/perform.go
+++ b/code/sonalyze/daemon/perform.go
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ func (dc *DaemonCommand) RunDaemon(_ io.Reader, _, stderr io.Writer) error {
 			if Verbose {
 				Log.Infof("Starting listener for %s", cl.Name)
 			}
-			go runKafka(dc.kafkaBroker, cl.Name, ds)
+			go runKafka(dc.kafkaBroker, cl.Name, dc.consumerGroup, ds)
 		}
 	}