hi Kafka, KIP-338 is trying to make us exclude internal topics easily when using the kafka-topics.sh. An new option will be added to kafka-topics.sh (TopicCommand) and user can use the option to exclude all internal topics when running the list or describe command.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-338+Support+to+exclude+the+internal+topics+in+kafka-topics.sh+command feedback is welcome Cheers, chia-ping