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Matthias J. Sax edited comment on KAFKA-6692 at 3/20/18 6:29 PM: ----------------------------------------------------------------- The prefix of those topics is the user specified {{application.id}} that is passed in as a config. Thus, users can also add a "{{__}}"-prefix to the application ID to get the same naming pattern. was (Author: mjsax): The prefix of those topics is the user specified {{application.id}} that is passed in as a config. Thus, users can also add the {{__}} to the application ID to get the same naming pattern. > Kafka Streams internal topics should be prefixed with an underscore > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-6692 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6692 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: streams > Affects Versions: 1.0.0 > Reporter: Yeva Byzek > Priority: Major > > Issue: users cannot quickly/easily differentiate between their explicitly > created topics from internal topics that Kafka Streams uses, e.g. > {{*-changelog}} and {{*-repartition}} > > Proposed solution: Kafka Streams internal topics should be prefixed with an > underscore > Value add: ability to introspect kstreams and be able to *know* a set of > topics are associated with a topology. This can help downstream tooling to > do cool visualizations and tracking -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)