How to delete kafka topic from cluster version : 0.10.2.1

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I am not able to delete kafka topic, Its marked for deletion but never gets deleted. Iam running kafka cluster with zookeeper cluster.

version of kafka : 0.10.2.1

Can anyone help me , with the list of steps that one needs to follow in order to delete a topic in kafka cluster.

Went through various queries in stackoverflow but could not find a valid workable answer.

Possible duplicate of [How to Delete a topic in apache kafka](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33537950/how-to-delete-a-topic-in-apache-kafka) — Ryuzaki L, Jul 06 '18 at 01:50
Possible duplicate of [Delete topic in Kafka 0.8.1.1](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24287900/delete-topic-in-kafka-0-8-1-1) — Mohammad Sadegh, Oct 25 '18 at 15:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 25 '18 at 11:37

You should have enabled its property at config before starting kafka server; it is disabled at default. To enable deletion property first stop kafka server and then open the server.properties in config file and then uncomment #delete.topic.enable=true or add
delete.topic.enable=true
at the end of the file.

Now you can start kafka server and then you can delete any topic you want via:
bin/kafka-topics.sh --delete --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic YOUR_TOPIC_NAME.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 05 '18 at 15:30

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You could use Kafka Tool

Download link here

Then connect to your kafka server .

After that you could see the available topics in that server. From there you can select and delete the topics .

answered Jul 05 '18 at 15:30

adarsh kadameri

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How to delete kafka topic from cluster version : 0.10.2.1

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