Docs Self-Managed Reference rpk Commands rpk cluster rpk cluster partitions rpk cluster partitions balance You are viewing the Self-Managed v24.3 beta documentation. We welcome your feedback at the Redpanda Community Slack #beta-feedback channel. To view the latest available version of the docs, see v24.2. rpk cluster partitions balance Triggers on-demand partition balancing. With Redpanda Community Edition, the partition count on each broker can easily become uneven, which leads to data skewing. To distribute partitions across brokers, you can run this command to trigger on-demand partition balancing. With Redpanda Enterprise Edition, Continuous Data Balancing monitors broker and rack availability, as well as disk usage, to avoid topic hotspots. However, there are edge cases where users should manually trigger partition balancing (such as a node becoming unavailable for a prolonged time and rejoining the cluster thereafter). In such cases, you should run this command to trigger partition balancing manually. After you run this command, monitor the balancer progress using: rpk cluster partitions balancer-status To see more detailed movement status, monitor the progress using: rpk cluster partitions move-status Usage rpk cluster partitions balance [flags] Flags Value Type Description -h, --help - Help for balance. --config string Redpanda or rpk config file; default search paths are /var/lib/redpanda/.config/rpk/rpk.yaml, $PWD/redpanda.yaml, and /etc/redpanda/redpanda.yaml. -X, --config-opt stringArray Override rpk configuration settings. See rpk -X or execute rpk -X help for inline detail or rpk -X list for terser detail. --profile string Profile to use. See rpk profile for more details. -v, --verbose - Enable verbose logging. Back to top × Simple online edits For simple changes, such as fixing a typo, you can edit the content directly on GitHub. Edit on GitHub Or, open an issue to let us know about something that you want us to change. Open an issue Contribution guide For extensive content updates, or if you prefer to work locally, read our contribution guide . Was this helpful? thumb_up thumb_down group Ask in the community mail Share your feedback group_add Make a contribution rpk cluster partitions rpk cluster partitions disable