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Status

Current state: Under DiscussionAccepted (2.1.0)

Discussion thread: TBD thread voting

JIRA:

Released: 2.1.0

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Usually we have no interest in internal topics when using the kafka-topics.sh command . However, the kafka-topics.sh can't exclude the internal topics simply. We have to write the regular to exclude the internal topics. This kip tries to add a flag (perhaps "exclude-internal")  to kafka-topics.sh. If user set the flag, all internal topics will be excluded by the following commands - "list" and "describe"

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• No compatibility issue since the default value of exclude-internal is false.

Rejected Alternatives

If there are alternative ways of accomplishing the same thing, what were they? The purpose of this section is to motivate why the design is the way it is and not some other way.None