diff --git a/morpheus/stages/preprocess/group_by_column_stage.py b/morpheus/stages/preprocess/group_by_column_stage.py
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+# Copyright (c) 2024, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import mrc
+from mrc.core import operators as ops
+
+from morpheus.config import Config
+from morpheus.messages import MessageMeta
+from morpheus.pipeline.pass_thru_type_mixin import PassThruTypeMixin
+from morpheus.pipeline.single_port_stage import SinglePortStage
+
+
+class GroupByColumnStage(PassThruTypeMixin, SinglePortStage):
+    """
+    Group the incoming message by a column in the DataFrame.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    config : morpheus.config.Config
+        Pipeline configuration instance
+    column_name : str
+        The column name in the message dataframe to group by
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, config: Config, column_name: str):
+        super().__init__(config)
+
+        self._column_name = column_name
+
+    @property
+    def name(self) -> str:
+        return "group-by-column"
+
+    def accepted_types(self) -> tuple:
+        """
+        Returns accepted input types for this stage.
+        """
+        return (MessageMeta, )
+
+    def supports_cpp_node(self) -> bool:
+        """
+        Indicates whether this stage supports C++ node.
+        """
+        return False
+
+    def on_data(self, message: MessageMeta) -> list[MessageMeta]:
+        """
+        Group the incoming message by a column in the DataFrame.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        message : MessageMeta
+            Incoming message
+        """
+        with message.mutable_dataframe() as df:
+            grouper = df.groupby(self._column_name)
+
+        output_messages = []
+        for group_name in sorted(grouper.groups.keys()):
+            group_df = grouper.get_group(group_name)
+            output_messages.append(MessageMeta(group_df))
+
+        return output_messages
+
+    def _build_single(self, builder: mrc.Builder, input_node: mrc.SegmentObject) -> mrc.SegmentObject:
+        node = builder.make_node(self.unique_name, ops.map(self.on_data), ops.flatten())
+        builder.make_edge(input_node, node)
+
+        return node
diff --git a/tests/stages/test_group_by_column_stage.py b/tests/stages/test_group_by_column_stage.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2024, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import os
+
+import pandas as pd
+import pytest
+
+import cudf
+
+from _utils import TEST_DIRS
+from _utils import assert_results
+from morpheus.config import Config
+from morpheus.io.deserializers import read_file_to_df
+from morpheus.messages import MessageMeta
+from morpheus.pipeline import LinearPipeline
+from morpheus.stages.input.in_memory_source_stage import InMemorySourceStage
+from morpheus.stages.output.in_memory_sink_stage import InMemorySinkStage
+from morpheus.stages.preprocess.group_by_column_stage import GroupByColumnStage
+from morpheus.utils.compare_df import compare_df
+from morpheus.utils.type_aliases import DataFrameType
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="_test_df", scope="module")
+def _test_df_fixture():
+    """
+    Read the source data only once
+    """
+    # Manually reading this in since we need lines=False
+    yield read_file_to_df(os.path.join(TEST_DIRS.tests_data_dir, 'azure_ad_logs.json'),
+                          parser_kwargs={'lines': False},
+                          df_type='pandas')
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(name="test_df")
+def test_df_fixture(_test_df: DataFrameType):
+    """
+    Ensure each test gets a unique copy
+    """
+    yield _test_df.copy(deep=True)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("group_by_column", ["identity", "location"])
+def test_group_by_column_stage_pipe(config: Config, group_by_column: str, test_df: DataFrameType):
+    input_df = cudf.from_pandas(test_df)
+    input_df.drop(columns=["properties"], inplace=True)  # Remove once #1527 is resolved
+
+    # Intentionally constructing the expected data in a manual way not involving pandas or cudf to avoid using the same
+    # technology as the GroupByColumnStage
+    rows = test_df.to_dict(orient="records")
+    expected_data: dict[str, list[dict]] = {}
+    for row in rows:
+        key = row[group_by_column]
+        if key not in expected_data:
+            expected_data[key] = []
+
+        row.pop('properties')  # Remove once #1527 is resolved
+        expected_data[key].append(row)
+
+    expected_dataframes: list[DataFrameType] = []
+    for key in sorted(expected_data.keys()):
+        df = pd.DataFrame(expected_data[key])
+        expected_dataframes.append(df)
+
+    pipe = LinearPipeline(config)
+    pipe.set_source(InMemorySourceStage(config, dataframes=[input_df]))
+    pipe.add_stage(GroupByColumnStage(config, column_name=group_by_column))
+    sink = pipe.add_stage(InMemorySinkStage(config))
+
+    pipe.run()
+
+    messages: MessageMeta = sink.get_messages()
+    assert len(messages) == len(expected_dataframes)
+    for (i, message) in enumerate(messages):
+        output_df = message.copy_dataframe().to_pandas()
+        output_df.reset_index(drop=True, inplace=True)
+
+        expected_df = expected_dataframes[i]
+
+        assert_results(compare_df(expected_df, output_df))