# rpk group describe

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<!-- Source: https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/24.2/reference/rpk/rpk-group/rpk-group-describe.md -->

Describe group offset status & lag.

This command describes group members, calculates their lag, and prints detailed information about the members.

The `--regex` flag (`-r`) parses arguments as regular expressions

and describes groups that match any of the expressions.

## [](#usage)Usage

```bash
rpk group describe [GROUPS...] [flags]
```

## [](#flags)Flags

| Value | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| -h, --help | - | Help for describe. |
| -c, --print-commits | - | Print only the group commits section. |
| -s, --print-summary | - | Print only the group summary section. |
| -r, --regex | string | Parse arguments as regex. Describe any group that matches any input group expression. |
| --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. |

## [](#examples)Examples

Describe groups `<foo>` and `<bar>`:

```bash
rpk group describe <foo> <bar>
```

Describe any group starting with f and ending in r:

```bash
rpk group describe -r '^f.*' '.*r$'
```

Describe all groups:

```bash
rpk group describe -r '*'
```

Describe any one-character group:

```bash
rpk group describe -r .
```