Indefinite log retention on kafka
问题 I am using kafka for event-sourcing. I realized that we still need to configure the log retention time, i.e. log.retention.hours . What is the best value to use if I want to keep all my messages indefinitely? The sample configuration for log.retention.bytes is set to -1, can I use -1 also in the log.retention.hours ? 回答1: See the following Kafka JIRA which is due for the 0.9.0.0 release. For the time being set as suggested: log.retention.bytes = -1 log.retention.hours = 2147483647 Which is