Make Kafka Topic Log Retention Permanent

Question

I am writing log messages into a Kafka Topic and I want the retention of this topic to be permanent. I have seen in Kafka and Kafka Connect (_schemas, connect-configs, conne

Answer 1

These special topics are compacted topics. This means they are made up of keyed messages and only keep the list recent key. A full write here. This is probably what you want for infinite retention time in most cases.