---
title: "Delete Topic"
method: DELETE
path: "/clusters/{cluster_id}/topics/{topic_name}"
tags: ["Topic (v3)"]
---

# Delete Topic

`DELETE /clusters/{cluster_id}/topics/{topic_name}`

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Delete the topic with the given `topic_name`.

## Response `204`

No Content

## Other responses

- `400` — Indicates a bad request error. It could be caused by an unexpected request body format or other forms of request validation failure.
- `401` — Indicates a client authentication error. Kafka authentication failures will contain error code 40101 in the response body.
- `403` — Indicates a client authorization error. Kafka authorization failures will contain error code 40301 in the response body.
- `404` — Indicates attempted access to an unreachable or non-existing resource like e.g. an unknown topic or partition. GET requests to endpoints not allowed in the accesslists will also result in this response.
- `429` — Indicates that a rate limit threshold has been reached, and the client should retry again later.
- `5XX` — A server-side problem that might not be addressable from the client side. Retriable Kafka errors will contain error code 50003 in the response body.

## Changes

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- **2023-08-08** (v3) `25e5259d1722` — 1 breaking, 2 info
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `400`
  - api operation id `deleteKafkaV3Topic` removed and replaced with `deleteKafkaTopic`
  - added the non-success response with the status `403`
- **2023-08-08** (v3) `1be42847ed21` — 3 info
  - api operation id `deleteKafkaTopic` removed and replaced with `deleteKafkaV3Topic`
  - added the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `400`
  - removed the non-success response with the status `403`
- **2023-03-10** (v3) `bb1cdf42f052` — 1 breaking, 2 info
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `400`
  - api operation id `deleteKafkaV3Topic` removed and replaced with `deleteKafkaTopic`
  - added the non-success response with the status `403`
- **2023-03-08** (v3) `fc2720a3b446` — 1 info
  - added the new optional `query` request parameter `include_authorized_operations` to all path's operations
- **2022-03-22** (v3) `7500cc59fcff` — 7 info
  - api operation id `deleteKafkaV3Topic` was added
  - api tag `Topic (v3)` added
  - api tag `Topic` removed
  - added the non-success response with the status `400`
  - …3 more

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/confluentinc/apis/rest-admin-api/changes/clusters/:cluster_id/topics/:topic_name/delete.md)

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