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changing kafka retention period during runtime
log.retention.hours is a property of a broker which is used as a default value when a topic is created. When you change configurations of currently running topic using kafka-topics.sh, you should specify a topic-level property.
A topic-level property for log retention time is retention.ms.
Property: retention.ms
Default: 7 days
Server Default Property: log.retention.minutes
Description: This configuration controls the maximum time we will retain a log before we will discard old log segments to free up space if we are using the "delete" retention policy. This represents an SLA on how soon consumers must read their data.
So the correct command is
$ bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper zk.yoursite.com --alter --topic as-access --config retention.ms=86400000
You can check whether the configuration is properly applied with the following command.
$ bin/kafka-topics.sh --describe --zookeeper zk.yoursite.com --topic as-access
Then you will see something like below.
Topic:as-access PartitionCount:3 ReplicationFactor:3 Configs:retention.ms=86400000
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