Which directory does apache kafka store the data in broker nodes

Question

I can see a property in config/server.properties called log.dir? Does this mean kafka uses the same directory for storing logs and data both?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40369238/which-directory-does-apache-kafka-store-the-data-in-broker-nodes

Answer 1

Kafka topics are "distributed and partitioned append only logs". Parameter log.dir defines where topics (ie, data) is stored.

It is not related to application/broker logging.

The default log.dir is /tmp/kafka-logs which you may want to change in case your OS has a /tmp directory cleaner.