# rpk connect streams

> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.redpanda.com/llms.txt). Component-specific: [streaming-full.txt](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming-full.txt)

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title: rpk connect streams
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<!-- Source: https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.1/reference/rpk/rpk-connect/rpk-connect-streams.md -->

Run Redpanda Connect in streams mode, where multiple pipelines can be executed in a single process and can be created, updated, and removed with REST HTTP endpoints. In streams mode, the stream fields of a root target configuration (input, buffer, pipeline, output) are ignored. Other fields are shared across all loaded streams (resources, metrics, etc.).

See [Streams Mode](https://docs.redpanda.com/connect/guides/streams_mode/about/).

## [](#usage)Usage

```bash
rpk connect streams [command options] [arguments...]
```

## [](#examples)Examples

```bash
rpk connect streams
```

```bash
rpk connect streams -o ./root_config.yaml
```

```bash
rpk connect streams ./path/to/stream/configs ./and/some/more
```

```bash
rpk connect streams -o ./root_config.yaml ./streams/*.yaml
```

## [](#flags)Flags

| Value | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| --no-api | - | Disable the HTTP API for streams mode (default: false). |
| --observability, -o | - | Specify a path to a service wide configuration file, which can include observability configuration, such as metrics, logger, and tracing sections. |
| --prefix-stream-endpoints | - | Whether HTTP endpoints registered by stream configs should be prefixed with the stream ID (default: true). |
| --help, -h | - | Show help. |