Wouldn't it be a better choice to store the logs offline somewhere? HDFS and S3 are both good choices...
-Mark > On Feb 27, 2015, at 16:12, Warren Kiser <war...@hioscar.com> wrote: > > Does anyone know how to achieve unlimited log retention either globally or > on a per topic basis? I tried explicitly setting the log.retention.bytes to > -1 but the default time policy kicked in after 7 days and cleaned up the > messages. > > Thanks! > > Warren