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Creating job to automatically remove Kafka Topics

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Has anybody ever tried to delete unneeded Kafka Topics with a job or in some sort of automated fashion?

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@Joe Hellmers

Make sure that topic deletion enabled at the broker level (delete.topic.enable=true) in the entire cluster, and restart it?

Here is how the delete works in Kafka

Check this Github with scripts to delete topics you can readapt it

Hope that helps

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Master Mentor

@Joe Hellmers

Make sure that topic deletion enabled at the broker level (delete.topic.enable=true) in the entire cluster, and restart it?

Here is how the delete works in Kafka

Check this Github with scripts to delete topics you can readapt it

Hope that helps

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Contributor

That worked perfectly. Thanks!