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

kafka don't have direct method for purge/clean-up topic (Queues), but can do this via deleting that topic and recreate it.

first of make sure sever.properties file has and if not add delete.topic.enable=true

then, Delete topic bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --delete --topic myTopic

then create it again.

bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --create --topic myTopic --partitions 10 --replication-factor 2