It is totally reasonable to have unlimited retention. We don't have an explicit setting for this but you can set the time based retention policy to something large log.retention.hours=2147483647 which will retain the log for 245,146 years. :-)
-Jay On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 4:12 PM, 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 >