Raju Bairishetti created KAFKA-3087:
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             Summary: Fix documentation for retention.ms property
                 Key: KAFKA-3087
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3087
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: log
            Reporter: Raju Bairishetti
            Assignee: Jay Kreps
            Priority: Critical


Log retention settings can be set it in broker and some properties can be 
overriden at topic level. 
|Property |Default|Server Default property| Description|
|retention.ms|7 days|log.retention.minutes|This configuration controls the 
maximum time we will retain a log before we will discard old log segments to 
free up space if we are using the "delete" retention policy. This represents an 
SLA on how soon consumers must read their data.|

But retention.ms is in milli seconds not in minutes. So corresponding property 
should be *log.retention.ms* instead of *log.retention.minutes*.

It would be better if we mention the if the time age is in millis/minutes/hours 
in the documentation page and documenting in code as well (Right now, it is 
saying *age in the code*. We should specify the *age in time granularity).




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