rpk topic describe

Describe a topic.

This command prints detailed information about a topic. There are three potential sections: a summary of the topic, the topic configs, and a detailed partitions section. By default, the summary and configs sections are printed.

Usage

rpk topic describe [TOPIC] [flags]

Aliases

describe, info

Flags

Value	Type	Description
-h, --help	-	Help for describe.
-a, --print-all	-	Print all sections.
-c, --print-configs	-	Print the config section.
-p, --print-partitions	-	Print the detailed partitions section.
-s, --print-summary	-	Print the summary section.
--brokers	strings	Comma-separated list of broker <ip>:<port> pairs (for example,--brokers '192.168.78.34:9092,192.168.78.35:9092,192.179.23.54:9092'). Alternatively, you may set the REDPANDA_BROKERSenvironment variable with the comma-separated list of broker addresses.
--config	string	Redpanda config file, if not set the file will be searched for in the default locations.
--password	string	SASL password to be used for authentication.
--sasl-mechanism	string	The authentication mechanism to use. Supported values:SCRAM-SHA-256, SCRAM-SHA-512.
--tls-cert	string	The certificate to be used for TLS authentication with the broker.
--tls-enabled	-	Enable TLS for the Kafka API (not necessary if specifying custom certs).
--tls-key	string	The certificate key to be used for TLS authentication with the broker.
--tls-truststore	string	The truststore to be used for TLS communication with the broker.
--user	string	SASL user to be used for authentication.
-v, --verbose	-	Enable verbose logging (default false).