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Admin Client

The admin client hosts all the cluster operations, such as: createTopics, createPartitions, etc.

const kafka = new Kafka(...)
const admin = kafka.admin()

// remember to connect and disconnect when you are done
await admin.connect()
await admin.disconnect()

The option retry can be used to customize the configuration for the admin.

Take a look at Retry for more information.

Create topics

createTopics will resolve to true if the topic was created successfully or false if it already exists. The method will throw exceptions in case of errors.

await admin.createTopics({
    validateOnly: <boolean>,
    waitForLeaders: <boolean>
    timeout: <Number>,
    topics: <ITopicConfig[]>,
})

ITopicConfig structure:

{
    topic: <String>,
    numPartitions: <Number>,     // default: 1
    replicationFactor: <Number>, // default: 1
    replicaAssignment: <Array>,  // Example: [{ partition: 0, replicas: [0,1,2] }] - default: []
    configEntries: <Array>       // Example: [{ name: 'cleanup.policy', value: 'compact' }] - default: []
}

property	description	default
topics	Topic definition
validateOnly	If this is true, the request will be validated, but the topic won't be created.	false
timeout	The time in ms to wait for a topic to be completely created on the controller node	5000
waitForLeaders	If this is true it will wait until metadata for the new topics doesn't throw LEADER_NOT_AVAILABLE	true

Delete topics

await admin.deleteTopics({
    topics: <String[]>,
    timeout: <Number>,
})

Topic deletion is disabled by default in Apache Kafka versions prior to 1.0.0. To enable it set the server config.

delete.topic.enable=true

Get topic metadata

Deprecated, see Fetch topic metadata

Fetch topic metadata

await admin.fetchTopicMetadata({ topics: <Array<String> })

TopicsMetadata structure:

{
    topics: <Array<TopicMetadata>>,
}

TopicMetadata structure:

{
    topic: <String>,
    partitions: <Array<PartitionMetadata>> // default: 1
}

PartitionMetadata structure:

{
    partitionErrorCode: <Number>, // default: 0
    partitionId: <Number>,
    leader: <Number>,
    replicas: <Array<Number>>,
    isr: <Array<Number>>,
}

The admin client will throw an exception if any of the provided topics do not already exist.

If you omit the topics argument the admin client will fetch metadata for all topics:

await admin.fetchTopicMetadata()

Fetch topic offsets

fetchTopicOffsets returns most recent offset for a topic.

await admin.fetchTopicOffsets(topic)
// [
//   { partition: 0, offset: '31004', high: '31004', low: '421' },
//   { partition: 1, offset: '54312', high: '54312', low: '3102' },
//   { partition: 2, offset: '32103', high: '32103', low: '518' },
//   { partition: 3, offset: '28', high: '28', low: '0' },
// ]

Fetch consumer group offsets

fetchOffsets returns the consumer group offset for a topic.

await admin.fetchOffsets({ groupId, topic })
// [
//   { partition: 0, offset: '31004' },
//   { partition: 1, offset: '54312' },
//   { partition: 2, offset: '32103' },
//   { partition: 3, offset: '28' },
// ]

Reset consumer group offsets

resetOffsets resets the consumer group offset to the earliest or latest offset (latest by default). The consumer group must have no running instances when performing the reset. Otherwise, the command will be rejected.

await admin.resetOffsets({ groupId, topic }) // latest by default
// await admin.resetOffsets({ groupId, topic, earliest: true })

Set consumer group offsets

setOffsets allows you to set the consumer group offset to any value.

await admin.setOffsets({
    groupId: <String>,
    topic: <String>,
    partitions: <SeekEntry[]>,
})

SeekEntry structure:

{
    partition: <Number>,
    offset: <String>,
}

Example:

await admin.setOffsets({
    groupId: 'my-consumer-group',
    topic: 'custom-topic',
    partitions: [
        { partition: 0, offset: '35' },
        { partition: 3, offset: '19' },
    ]
})

Describe configs

Get the configuration for the specified resources.

await admin.describeConfigs({
  includeSynonyms: <boolean>,
  resources: <ResourceConfigQuery[]>
})

ResourceConfigQuery structure:

{
    type: <ResourceType>,
    name: <String>,
    configNames: <String[]>
}

Returning all configs for a given resource:

const { ResourceTypes } = require('kafkajs')

await admin.describeConfigs({
  includeSynonyms: false,
  resources: [
    {
      type: ResourceTypes.TOPIC,
      name: 'topic-name'
    }
  ]
})

Returning specific configs for a given resource:

const { ResourceTypes } = require('kafkajs')

await admin.describeConfigs({
  includeSynonyms: false,
  resources: [
    {
      type: ResourceTypes.TOPIC,
      name: 'topic-name',
      configNames: ['cleanup.policy']
    }
  ]
})

Take a look at resourceTypes for a complete list of resources.

Example response:

{
    resources: [
        {
            configEntries: [{
                configName: 'cleanup.policy',
                configValue: 'delete',
                isDefault: true,
                isSensitive: false,
                readOnly: false
            }],
            errorCode: 0,
            errorMessage: null,
            resourceName: 'topic-name',
            resourceType: 2
        }
    ],
    throttleTime: 0
}

Alter configs

Update the configuration for the specified resources.

await admin.alterConfigs({
    validateOnly: false,
    resources: <ResourceConfig[]>
})

ResourceConfig structure:

{
    type: <ResourceType>,
    name: <String>,
    configEntries: <ResourceConfigEntry[]>
}

ResourceConfigEntry structure:

{
    name: <String>,
    value: <String>
}

Example:

const { ResourceTypes } = require('kafkajs')

await admin.alterConfigs({
    resources: [{
        type: ResourceTypes.TOPIC,
        name: 'topic-name',
        configEntries: [{ name: 'cleanup.policy', value: 'compact' }]
    }]
})

Take a look at resourceTypes for a complete list of resources.

Example response:

{
    resources: [{
        errorCode: 0,
        errorMessage: null,
        resourceName: 'topic-name',
        resourceType: 2,
    }],
    throttleTime: 0,
}