confluent local kafka topic delete

Important

The confluent local commands are intended for a single-node development environment and are not suitable for a production environment. The data that are produced are transient and are intended to be temporary. For production-ready workflows, see Confluent Platform.

Description

Delete a Kafka topic.

confluent local kafka topic delete <topic> [flags]

Tip

You must export the path as an environment variable for each terminal session, or set the path to your Confluent Platform installation in your shell profile. For example:

cat ~/.bash_profile
export CONFLUENT_HOME=<path-to-confluent>
export PATH="${CONFLUENT_HOME}/bin:$PATH"

Flags

--force   Skip the deletion confirmation prompt.

Global Flags

-h, --help            Show help for this command.
    --unsafe-trace    Equivalent to -vvvv, but also log HTTP requests and responses which may contain plaintext secrets.
-v, --verbose count   Increase verbosity (-v for warn, -vv for info, -vvv for debug, -vvvv for trace).

Examples

Delete the topic “test”. Use this command carefully as data loss can occur.

confluent local kafka topic delete test

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