If a key changing operator was used before this operation (e.g., selectKey(KeyValueMapper), map(KeyValueMapper), flatMap(KeyValueMapper), or transform(TransformerSupplier, String...)), and no data redistribution happened afterwards (e.g., via through(String)) an internal repartitioning topic will be created in Kafka. This topic will be named "${applicationId}-XXX-repartition", where "applicationId" is user-specified in StreamsConfig via parameter APPLICATION_ID_CONFIG, "XXX" is an internally generated name, and "-repartition" is a fixed suffix. You can retrieve all generated internal topic names via Topology.describe().

https://kafka.apache.org/32/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/streams/kstream/KStream.html#groupByKey()