https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/kafka-delete-doesnt-work/m-p/169639#M131945 <P> <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/10666/subacini-balakrishna.html" nodeid="10666">@subacini balakrishnan</A></P><UL><LI>did you set delete.topic.enable=true for all brokers?</LI><LI>some topic may be undeletable in .9. fixed in .9.1. jira <A href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2937">here</A></LI><LI>when you made the delete.topic.enable=true, did you restart ZK and Kafka brokers?</LI></UL> Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:29:52 GMT sunile_manjee 2016-08-09T11:29:52Z