confluent kafka topic delete¶

Description¶

Delete one or more Kafka topics.

confluent kafka topic delete <topic-1> [topic-2] ... [topic-n] [flags]

Flags¶

--force                Skip the deletion confirmation prompt.
--cluster string       Kafka cluster ID.
--context string       CLI context name.
--environment string   Environment ID.

--url string                          Base URL of REST Proxy Endpoint of Kafka Cluster (include "/kafka" for embedded Rest Proxy). Must set flag or CONFLUENT_REST_URL.
--certificate-authority-path string   Path to a PEM-encoded Certificate Authority to verify the Confluent REST Proxy.
--client-cert-path string             Path to client cert to be verified by Confluent REST Proxy. Include for mTLS authentication.
--client-key-path string              Path to client private key, include for mTLS authentication.
--no-authentication                   Include if requests should be made without authentication headers and user will not be prompted for credentials.
--prompt                              Bypass use of available login credentials and prompt for Kafka Rest credentials.
--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 might contain plaintext secrets.
-v, --verbose count   Increase verbosity (-v for warn, -vv for info, -vvv for debug, -vvvv for trace).

Examples¶

Delete the topics “my_topic” and “my_topic_avro”. Use this command carefully as data loss can occur.

confluent kafka topic delete my_topic
confluent kafka topic delete my_topic_avro

Delete the topic “my_topic” for the specified cluster (providing embedded Kafka REST Proxy endpoint). Use this command carefully as data loss can occur.

confluent kafka topic delete my_topic --url http://localhost:8090/kafka

Delete the topic “my_topic” for the specified cluster (providing Kafka REST Proxy endpoint). Use this command carefully as data loss can occur.

confluent kafka topic delete my_topic --url http://localhost:8082

See Also¶

confluent kafka topic - Manage Kafka topics.