How to delete kafka topic from cluster version : 0.10.2.1

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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 .