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

You can find the default values for parameters here: https://jaceklaskowski.gitbooks.io/apache-kafka/content/kafka-properties.html

log.retention.bytes and log.retention.ms can be set to -1 if you want to keep the data in topics forever.