Delete topic in Kafka 0.8.1.1

Question

I need to delete the topic test in Apache Kafka 0.8.1.1.

As expressed in the documentation here, I have executed:

bin/kafka-topics.sh --         


        

Answer 1

You can delete a specific kafka topic (example: test) from zookeeper shell command (zookeeper-shell.sh). Use the below command to delete the topic

rmr {path of the topic}

example:

rmr /brokers/topics/test