I have been diving into to Kafka for the last couple of weeks. I am running some low volume (5-10 TPS) production data. I had set a default retention period on all the topics for 48 hours. I have just noticed there is some behavior I don't understand. I see messages in the topic that are over a week old and they don't seem to be removed. Is there some documentation on the topic clean up process or guidance on how can I figure out why the messages are not being removed?
This is what I am seeing on the topic: * messages from July 13 - July 15th * No messages from July 16th - July 18 (they were there at one point, but removed because retention I assume) * messages from July 20th and July 21 (this is what I expected with the 48 hour retention Any guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks, David Collette collett...@gmail.com
