Hi Haitao, The retention time (retention.ms) configuration can exist as a broker-level and/or topic-level config. For the latter, changing it does NOT require broker restarts.
On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 10:33 PM, haitao .yao <yao.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I want to change the retention time for a specific topic with the > following command: > > $ bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper zk_address --alter --topic > test-topic --config retention.ms=86400000 > > Is that correct? Do I have to restart the brokers? > I read the source code and thought the configuration values about retention > time in LogManager are static: > https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/0.10.0/core/src/ > main/scala/kafka/server/KafkaServer.scala#L597-L620 > > Kafka version: kafka_2.11-0.10.0.1 > > Thanks > -- > haitao.yao > -- Kaufman Ng +1 646 961 8063 Solutions Architect | Confluent | www.confluent.io
