diff --git a/devstack/files/kafka/server.properties b/devstack/files/kafka/server.properties
index 1548255a4..4fb200ad1 100644
--- a/devstack/files/kafka/server.properties
+++ b/devstack/files/kafka/server.properties
@@ -117,3 +117,6 @@ zookeeper.connect=127.0.0.1:2181
 # Timeout in ms for connecting to zookeeper
 zookeeper.connection.timeout.ms=1000000
 
+#kafka delete will have no impact if this is not set true
+delete.topic.enable=true
+
diff --git a/devstack/plugin.sh b/devstack/plugin.sh
index 69b580e5a..b78ecd086 100755
--- a/devstack/plugin.sh
+++ b/devstack/plugin.sh
@@ -188,6 +188,22 @@ function start_monasca_services {
     fi
 }
 
+function delete_kafka_topics {
+
+        /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --delete --zookeeper localhost:2181 \
+                --replication-factor 1 --partitions 64 --topic metrics || true
+        /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --delete --zookeeper localhost:2181 \
+                --replication-factor 1 --partitions 12 --topic events || true
+        /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --delete --zookeeper localhost:2181 \
+                --replication-factor 1 --partitions 12 --topic alarm-state-transitions || true
+        /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --delete --zookeeper localhost:2181 \
+                --replication-factor 1 --partitions 12 --topic alarm-notifications || true
+        /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --delete --zookeeper localhost:2181 \
+                --replication-factor 1 --partitions 3 --topic retry-notifications || true
+        /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --delete --zookeeper localhost:2181 \
+                --replication-factor 1 --partitions 3 --topic 60-seconds-notifications || true
+}
+
 function unstack_monasca {
     stop_service grafana-server || true
 
@@ -200,6 +216,7 @@ function unstack_monasca {
     stop_monasca-persister
     stop_monasca_api
 
+    delete_kafka_topics
     stop_service kafka || true
 
     stop_service influxdb || true