Oh, duh. I see it in the kafka-topics tool as well. Sorry for the distraction.
kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --describe --topic foo Topic:foo PartitionCount:1 ReplicationFactor:1 Configs:cleanup.policy=compact Topic: foo Partition: 0 Leader: 0 Replicas: 0 Isr: 0 On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Roger Hoover <roger.hoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I found this way: > > zookeeper-shell.sh localhost:2181 get /config/topics/foo > > {"version":1,"config":{"cleanup.policy":"compact"}} > > cZxid = 0x57 > > ctime = Tue Oct 14 12:02:54 PDT 2014 > > mZxid = 0x57 > > mtime = Tue Oct 14 12:02:54 PDT 2014 > > pZxid = 0x57 > > cversion = 0 > > dataVersion = 0 > > aclVersion = 0 > > ephemeralOwner = 0x0 > > dataLength = 51 > > numChildren = 0 > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Roger Hoover <roger.hoo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> How do I check if a topic is configured for compaction? Is there a >> command-line tool to see topic metadata like cleanup.policy=compact? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Roger >> > >