AFAIK there is no such notion as maximum length of a topic, i.e. offset has no limit, except Long.MAX_VALUE I think, which should be enough for a couple of lifetimes (9 * 10E18, or quintillion or million trillions).
What would be the purpose of that, besides being a nice foot-gun :) Marko Bonaći Monitoring | Alerting | Anomaly Detection | Centralized Log Management Solr & Elasticsearch Support Sematext <http://sematext.com/> | Contact <http://sematext.com/about/contact.html> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Debraj Manna <subharaj.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Can some one please let me know the following:- > > > 1. Is it possible to specify maximum length of a particular topic ( in > terms of number of messages ) in kafka ? > 2. Also how does Kafka behave when a particular topic gets full? > 3. Can the producer be blocked if a topic get full rather than deleting > old messages? > > I have gone through the documentation > <http://kafka.apache.org/081/documentation.html#basic_ops_add_topic> but > could not find anything of what I am looking for. >
