Depending on how many consumer groups and partitions you have and how often you commit, you risk either running out of disk space and/or deleting commit information that you will need. Either way, you will be storing lots of records you don't need.
Only do this if there is no other solution to whatever the real issue is... On Sun, Dec 30, 2018, 5:50 PM lk gen <lkge...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > the consumer offsets Kafka internal topic is always created with a > compact cleanup policy > > If altering the consumer offsets topic policy from compact to delete in a > specific installed environment, will it cause problems ? will the consumer > still work if the consumer offsets are set to delete ? > > Thanks >