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

While the accepted answer is correct, that method has been deprecated. Topic configuration should now be done via kafka-configs.

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

Configurations set via this method can be displayed with the command

kafka-configs --zookeeper localhost:2181 --entity-type topics --describe --entity-name MyTopic