https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Wiping-Kafka-Topics-and-starting-fresh/m-p/131321#M31393 <P>Hi,</P><P>I currently have an HDP 2.3 cluster with Kafka running. Kafka topics look to be corrupt so I want to wipe all data in the topics. Delete Kafka from the cluster and re-add it. What is the best way to do this? </P><P>The cluster is currently being used for other tasks (Hive, Spark, etc) that I don't want to impact.</P><P>Thanks,</P> Fri, 10 Jun 2016 03:43:20 GMT awatson 2016-06-10T03:43:20Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Wiping-Kafka-Topics-and-starting-fresh/m-p/131321#M31393 <P>Hi,</P><P>I currently have an HDP 2.3 cluster with Kafka running. Kafka topics look to be corrupt so I want to wipe all data in the topics. Delete Kafka from the cluster and re-add it. What is the best way to do this? </P><P>The cluster is currently being used for other tasks (Hive, Spark, etc) that I don't want to impact.</P><P>Thanks,</P> Fri, 10 Jun 2016 03:43:20 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Wiping-Kafka-Topics-and-starting-fresh/m-p/131321#M31393 awatson 2016-06-10T03:43:20Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Wiping-Kafka-Topics-and-starting-fresh/m-p/131322#M31394 <P>You don't necessarily need to remove Kafka service but to clean up topics use the following approach <A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/1786/how-to-clean-up-purge-kafka-queues.html" target="_blank">https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/1786/how-to-clean-up-purge-kafka-queues.html</A></P> Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:12:23 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Wiping-Kafka-Topics-and-starting-fresh/m-p/131322#M31394 aervits 2016-06-10T11:12:23Z