https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/kafka-topic-delete-can-not-be-completed/m-p/232130#M193972 <P>@<A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/users/14787/amazon20062007.html">Zhao Chaofeng</A></P><P>So the deletion might not go through in the following scenarios:</P><P>1. broker hosting one of the replicas for that topic goes down </P><P>2. partition reassignment for partitions of that topic is in progress </P><P>3. preferred replica election for partitions of that topic is in progress </P><P>Kindly check if your brokers are up and running fine. Also you can check state-change logs to monitor the state of the topic after you ran delete command.</P><P>If you can share the state change logs here as well that would be helpful.</P><P>Also the last option would be to delete it manually but I would suggest to check the cause first.</P><P>Thank you!</P> Thu, 13 Jul 2017 02:24:44 GMT dbains 2017-07-13T02:24:44Z