Purge Kafka Topic

Question

Is there a way to purge the topic in kafka?

I pushed a message that was too big into a kafka message topic on my local machine, now I\'m getting an

Answer 1

Temporarily update the retention time on the topic to one second:

kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper :2181 --alter --topic  --config retention.ms=1000

And in newer Kafka releases, you can also do it with kafka-configs --entity-type topics

kafka-configs.sh --zookeeper :2181 --entity-type topics --alter --entity-name  --add-config retention.ms=1000

then wait for the purge to take effect (about one minute). Once purged, restore the previous retention.ms value.