The default topic retention period in Kafka is seven days. However, you can change the current retention period and keep data for a few more days. Hence it provides you additional time for analysis to get business insights. Kafka retention period The retention period, you can set on two parameters of bytes and time. Due to cheap storage costs, companies wish to extend the data retention period.  The retention period setup you need in the broker.  It is not a deviation that Kafka is designed only for Seven days, and why we need to change it. Since space is cheaper, we can extend the retention period. Setup for the retention period Below is the setup in the broker configuration file for the retention period. log.retention.bytes The most significant size threshold in bytes for deleting a log. log.retention.ms The length in milliseconds of a log will be maintained before being deleted. log.retention.minutes Length before deletion in minutes. log.retention.ms is used as well if bot...