diff --git a/external/kafka-0-8/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kafka/KafkaRDD.scala b/external/kafka-0-8/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kafka/KafkaRDD.scala
index 5ea52b6ad36a0..791cf0efaf888 100644
--- a/external/kafka-0-8/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kafka/KafkaRDD.scala
+++ b/external/kafka-0-8/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kafka/KafkaRDD.scala
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ class KafkaRDD[
 
     private def fetchBatch: Iterator[MessageAndOffset] = {
       val req = new FetchRequestBuilder()
+        .clientId(consumer.clientId)
         .addFetch(part.topic, part.partition, requestOffset, kc.config.fetchMessageMaxBytes)
         .build()
       val resp = consumer.fetch(req)