Added the Kafka version and updated the command used.
Regards, Saurav From: "Datta, Saurav" <sda...@paypal.com<mailto:sda...@paypal.com>> Date: Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 10:22 AM To: "users@kafka.apache.org<mailto:users@kafka.apache.org>" <users@kafka.apache.org<mailto:users@kafka.apache.org>> Subject: Altered retention.ms not working Hi all, We had configured our topics with an incorrect retention.ms of 8640000. With this, we observed the consumers are unable to receive any data after approximate 2.4 hours; this ties in to 8640000/1000/60/60. Later we altered the retention.ms to 86400000 (an extra 0), but the consumers are still unable to receive any data after approximate 2.4 hours. Here is the command we used: bin/kafka-topics.sh --alter --zookeeper <ZKHost:port> --topic <topic name> --config retention.ms=86400000 Version -> kafka_2.10-0.9.0.0 Command -> bin/kafka-configs.sh --alter --zookeeper <ZKHost:port> --add-config retention.ms=86400000 --entity-name <topic name> --entity-type topics I realize that there maybe multiple reasons outside of retention.ms due to which consumers are not receiving data, but I am interested in knowing if : 1. Is there anywhere else that the retention.ms configuration has to be altered ? 2. Alter retention.ms does not work and maybe the topics have to be deleted and re-created with the correct configuration ? Appreciate your feedback on this. Regards, Saurav
