https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/kafka-kafka-shutdown-because-InvalidOffsetException/m-p/196308#M158361 <P>just be sure, the logs do contain the messages from the kafka topics. If you delete them, they are simply gone, which can break the principal of guaranteed delivery.</P><P>The logs I would delete (or maybe you save them somewhere else), would be the one from the topic causing the issue, which seems to be /var/kafka/kafka-logs/wctpi.avro.pri.processed-59, and within this topic the log file /var/kafka/kafka-logs/wctpi.avro.pri.processed-59/00000000000124356738.index</P><P>So i would first try to delete/move the files</P><P>/var/kafka/kafka-logs/wctpi.avro.pri.processed-59/00000000000124356738*</P><P>try to restart the broker. If it works fine no more to do, but if you have still issue, move all files below /var/kafka/kafka-logs/wctpi.avro.pri.processed-59/ and start again. After this kafka should be starting again.</P> Mon, 14 May 2018 17:47:08 GMT arald 2018-05-14T17:47:08Z