Kafka topic cannot be deleted or recreated - apache-kafka

I have a Kafka topic that seems to simultaneously exist and not exist.
kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic my-topic --delete
returns an error:
Topics in [] does not exist
Meanwhile, trying to re-create the topic
kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic my-topic \
--create --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1
returns
Topic already exists
It does not show up in the topics list with
kafka-topics.sh --list
I suspect some form of corruption but it's no clear how I can fully delete the topic so that it can be re-created

Instead of passing --bootstrap-server try with --zookeeper
kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic my-topic --delete

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kafka-topics.bat --list --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 is not returning list

kafka-topics.bat --list --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 is not returning anything
kafka-topics.bat --list --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 is not showing anything
The above command meant to show me the topic list but it wasn't returning anything.
It can only be two things
The cluster at localhost:9092 does not have any topics
There are ACL's preventing you from listing topics.
Have you tried creating a topic first? You can do this with
kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic first_topic --create --partitions 3 --replication-factor 1

Error when creating a topic in Apache Kafka

Does anyone knows how to fix the error when creating a topic in Kafka?
C:\kafka\bin\windows>kafka-topics.bat --create --bootstrap-server localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partition 1 --topic test
Exception in thread "main" joptsimple.UnrecognizedOptionException: partition is not a recognized option
at joptsimple.OptionException.unrecognizedOption(OptionException.java:108)
at joptsimple.OptionParser.handleLongOptionToken(OptionParser.java:510)
at joptsimple.OptionParserState$2.handleArgument(OptionParserState.java:56)
at joptsimple.OptionParser.parse(OptionParser.java:396)
at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$TopicCommandOptions.<init>(TopicCommand.scala:567)
at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.main(TopicCommand.scala:47)
at kafka.admin.TopicCommand.main(TopicCommand.scala)
The parameter is partitions
The bootstrap server normally (default) runs in port 9092
C:\kafka\bin\windows>kafka-topics.bat --create --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test
In recent versions, you don't have to create topics on zookeeper. You can directly create topics on the bootstrap servers of Kafka. In the later version, they plan to remove the zookeeper altogether, so they are preparing for that in the current versions.
Use the below to create a new partition. I suggest adding the below parameters as well to control the topic behaviour appropriately.
kafka-topics.bat --create --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --partitions 1 --replication-factor 1 --config retention.ms=604800000 segment.bytes=26214400 retention.bytes=1048576000 min.insync.replicas=1 --topic test

How to change change Kafka retention which is not working

I am using dockerised wurstmeister/kafka-docker. I created a topic using
bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 27 --topic raw-sensor-data --config retention.ms=86400000
After a few days I tried changing retention period by
bin/kafka-configs.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --alter --entity-type topics --entity-name raw-sensor-data --add-config retention.ms=3600000
I also tried
bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper locahost:2181 --alter --topic raw-sensor-data --config retention.ms=3600000
and
./bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --alter --topic raw-sensor-data --config cleanup.policy=delete
This also gets reflected in topic describe details
bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --describe --topics-with-overrides
Topic: raw-sensor-data PartitionCount: 27 ReplicationFactor: 1 Configs: cleanup.policy=delete,retention.ms=3600000
But I can still see old data and data is not getting deleted in 1 hour time.
In server.properties I have
log.retention.check.interval.ms=300000
Only closed log segments will be deleted. The default segment size is 1GB.
So, if you have less data in the topic, it will remain, regardless of the time that has passed.

kafka consumer not showing the messages?

I created the new topic 'rahul' with the following command :
bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic rahul
Created topic "rahul".
I also re-checked the topics with
bin/kafka-topics.sh --list --zookeeper localhost:2181
__consumer_offsets
rahhy
rahul`
Now starting the producer:
bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic rahul
hey
hi
hello
But when the time comes to consumer to show the messages: there is nothing
As of Kafka 0.9, you don't use Zookeeper for consumption or production
Try kafka-console-consumer --topic rahul --bootstrap-server localhost:9092
There are other ways you can check messages were sent to Kafka - by checking that the offsets of the topic partitions have changed using GetOffsetShell

Flink Streaming example: Kafka010Example.scala doesn't work

I'm trying to run official "Kafka010Example.scala", but unortunatelly it doesn't read from input topic and write to output as expected. What am I missing or doing wrong? Any help or hints much appreciated. Here's exactly what I did:
Started kafka in docker container (spotify/kafka:latest)
$ docker run -d -p 2181:2181 -p 9092:9092 spotify/kafka:latest
Started bash session inside of the container:
$ docker exec -it 26d1cfced4cb /bin/bash
Created input and output topics:
$ /opt/kafka_2.11-0.10.1.0/bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test-input
$ /opt/kafka_2.11-0.10.1.0/bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test-output
Launched "Kafka010Example.scala" running flink 1.3.2 in local mode (MiniCluster), with flink-connector-kafka-0.10_2.11
with the following arguments:
--input-topic test-input --output-topic test-output --bootstrap.servers localhost:9092 --zookeeper.connect localhost:2181 --group.id myconsumer
Logs:
https://file.io/jWsqI8
Sent some messages to the topic:
$ /opt/kafka_2.11-0.10.1.0/bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test-input
blah
blahh
blahhh
Checked offset on the output topic - NOTHING
$ /opt/kafka_2.11-0.10.1.0/bin/kafka-consumer-offset-checker.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --group myconsumer --topic test-output
Group Topic Pid Offset logSize
Lag Owner
myconsumer test-output 0 0 0
0 none
Check consumer group offset - NOTHING
$ /opt/kafka_2.11-0.10.1.0/bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --describe --group myconsumer
No topic available for consumer group provided
GROUP TOPIC PARTITION
CURRENT-OFFSET LOG-END-OFFSET LAG OWNER
I suggest using the console-consumer to watch the test-output topic. I wouldn't expect the offset for the test-output topic to have advanced, since no one has read from it.
Step 7 should be:
$ /opt/kafka_2.11-0.10.1.0/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --group myconsumer --topic test-output