(10) When do the messages published in Kafka get deleted? - Quora

(10) When do the messages published in Kafka get deleted? - Quora

You can not instruct kafka to delete after consume. Topics can be consumed multiple times by multiple consumer groups. All messages are kept for a retention period which can be set per topic. You can set the retention very low but then if you do not consume it by that time it is lost.

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