要清除队列，可以删除主题:

bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --delete --topic test

然后重新创造它:

bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 \
    --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test

虽然公认的答案是正确的，但该方法已被弃用。主题配置现在应该通过kafka-configs来完成。

kafka-configs --zookeeper localhost:2181 --entity-type topics --alter --add-config retention.ms=1000 --entity-name MyTopic

通过该方法设置的配置可以通过命令显示

kafka-configs --zookeeper localhost:2181 --entity-type topics --describe --entity-name MyTopic

从Java，使用新的AdminZkClient代替已弃用的AdminUtils:

  public void reset() {
    try (KafkaZkClient zkClient = KafkaZkClient.apply("localhost:2181", false, 200_000,
        5000, 10, Time.SYSTEM, "metricGroup", "metricType")) {

      for (Map.Entry<String, List<PartitionInfo>> entry : listTopics().entrySet()) {
        deleteTopic(entry.getKey(), zkClient);
      }
    }
  }

  private void deleteTopic(String topic, KafkaZkClient zkClient) {

    // skip Kafka internal topic
    if (topic.startsWith("__")) {
      return;
    }

    System.out.println("Resetting Topic: " + topic);
    AdminZkClient adminZkClient = new AdminZkClient(zkClient);
    adminZkClient.deleteTopic(topic);

    // deletions are not instantaneous
    boolean success = false;
    int maxMs = 5_000;
    while (maxMs > 0 && !success) {
      try {
        maxMs -= 100;
        adminZkClient.createTopic(topic, 1, 1, new Properties(), null);
        success = true;
      } catch (TopicExistsException ignored) {
      }
    }

    if (!success) {
      Assert.fail("failed to create " + topic);
    }
  }

  private Map<String, List<PartitionInfo>> listTopics() {
    Properties props = new Properties();
    props.put("bootstrap.servers", kafkaContainer.getBootstrapServers());
    props.put("group.id", "test-container-consumer-group");
    props.put("key.deserializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");
    props.put("value.deserializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");

    KafkaConsumer<String, String> consumer = new KafkaConsumer<>(props);
    Map<String, List<PartitionInfo>> topics = consumer.listTopics();
    consumer.close();

    return topics;
  }

您必须在配置中启用此功能

echo "delete.topic.enable=true" >> /opt/kafka/config/server.properties 
sudo systemctl stop kafka 
sudo systemctl start kafka 

清除主题

/opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --delete --topic flows

创建主题

# /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --bootstrap-server localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic Test

阅读主题

# /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh  localhost:9092 --topic flows --from-beginning

这里有很多很棒的答案，但在其中，我没有找到一个关于docker的答案。我花了一些时间来弄清楚在这种情况下使用代理容器是错误的(显然!!)

## this is wrong!
docker exec broker1 kafka-topics --zookeeper localhost:2181 --alter --topic mytopic --config retention.ms=1000

Exception in thread "main" kafka.zookeeper.ZooKeeperClientTimeoutException: Timed out waiting for connection while in state: CONNECTING
        at kafka.zookeeper.ZooKeeperClient.$anonfun$waitUntilConnected$3(ZooKeeperClient.scala:258)
        at scala.runtime.java8.JFunction0$mcV$sp.apply(JFunction0$mcV$sp.java:23)
        at kafka.utils.CoreUtils$.inLock(CoreUtils.scala:253)
        at kafka.zookeeper.ZooKeeperClient.waitUntilConnected(ZooKeeperClient.scala:254)
        at kafka.zookeeper.ZooKeeperClient.<init>(ZooKeeperClient.scala:112)
        at kafka.zk.KafkaZkClient$.apply(KafkaZkClient.scala:1826)
        at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$ZookeeperTopicService$.apply(TopicCommand.scala:280)
        at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.main(TopicCommand.scala:53)
        at kafka.admin.TopicCommand.main(TopicCommand.scala)

我应该使用zookeeper:2181而不是——zookeeper localhost:2181作为我的撰写文件

## this might be an option, but as per comment below not all zookeeper images can have this script included
docker exec zookeper1 kafka-topics --zookeeper localhost:2181 --alter --topic mytopic --config retention.ms=1000

正确的命令应该是

docker exec broker1 kafka-configs --zookeeper zookeeper:2181 --alter --entity-type topics --entity-name dev_gdn_urls --add-config retention.ms=12800000

希望能节省一些人的时间。

另外，请注意消息不会立即删除，而是在关闭日志段时删除。

user644265在这个答案中建议的临时减少主题的保留时间的解决方法仍然有效，但最新版本的kafka-configs会警告——zookeeper选项已被弃用:

警告:——zookeeper已弃用，并将在Kafka的未来版本中删除

使用——bootstrap-server代替;例如

kafka-configs --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --alter --entity-type topics --entity-name my_topic --add-config retention.ms=100

and

kafka-configs --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --alter --entity-type topics --entity-name my_topic --delete-config retention.ms