I have the same need, and I've just created a Jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1231
The reasoning behind it is because our topics are created on a per product basis and each of them usually starts big during the initial weeks and gradually reduces in time (1-2 years). thanks marc On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Guozhang Wang <wangg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Siyuan, > > We do not have a tool to shrink the number of partitions (if that is what > you want) for a topic at runtime yet. Could you file a JIRA for this? > > Guozhang > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:16 PM, hsy...@gmail.com <hsy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > I found there is a tool to add partition on the fly. My question is, is > > there a way to delete a partition at runtime? Thanks! > > > > Best, > > Siyuan > > > > > > -- > -- Guozhang >
