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

To clean up all the messages from a particular topic using your application group (GroupName should be same as application kafka group name).

./kafka-path/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic topicName --from-beginning --group application-group