Which Kafka configuration parameters determine the message retention duration in the queue?

In Apache Kafka, the message retention duration in topics is controlled by the following main configuration parameters:

• retention.ms — the time in milliseconds for which messages are stored. After this time, messages are deleted from the topic.
• retention.bytes — the maximum size of data that can be stored in a partition. If this size is exceeded, old messages are deleted.

These parameters can be set at the topic level or globally for the broker. For example, to store messages for 7 days, you can set retention.ms=604800000.

Example of setting retention for a topic using the kafka-topics command:

kafka-topics.sh --alter --topic my_topic --config retention.ms=604800000

Thus, the message retention duration is regulated by time and/or storage size.