# Streaming 25.2: manage

> Index of Streaming 25.2 manage documentation pages. Each link points to the page's markdown version.
> This is version 25.2. The latest version is 26.2.
> For the full documentation index, see https://docs.redpanda.com/llms.txt

## Pages

- [Audit Logging](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/audit-logging.md): Learn how to use Redpanda's audit logging capabilities.
- [Sample Audit Log Messages](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/audit-logging/audit-log-samples.md): Sample Redpanda audit log messages.
- [Cluster Maintenance](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance.md): Learn about cluster balancing, rolling upgrades, disk space management, and cluster diagnostics.
- [Cluster Balancing](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance/cluster-balancing.md): Learn about the different tools Redpanda provides for balanced clusters.
- [Configure Cluster Properties](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance/cluster-property-configuration.md): Learn how to configure cluster properties.
- [Compaction Settings](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance/compaction-settings.md): Redpanda's approach to compaction and options for configuring it.
- [Configure Client Connections](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance/configure-availability.md): Learn about guidelines for configuring client connections in Redpanda clusters for optimal availability.
- [Configure Continuous Data Balancing](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance/continuous-data-balancing.md): Continuous Data Balancing simplifies operations with self-healing clusters that dynamically balance partitions.
- [Decommission Brokers](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance/decommission-brokers.md): Remove a broker so that it is no longer considered part of the cluster.
- [Manage Disk Space](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance/disk-utilization.md): Redpanda provides several ways to manage disk space to ensure the stability of a cluster.
- [Manage Throughput](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance/manage-throughput.md): Learn how to manage the throughput of Kafka traffic.
- [Configure Broker Properties](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance/node-property-configuration.md): Learn how to configure broker properties with the redpanda.yaml file.
- [Node-wise Partition Recovery](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance/nodewise-partition-recovery.md): Feature to recover partitions that have lost a majority of replicas.
- [Forced partition recovery](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance/partition-recovery.md): Recover a single partition using the Admin API.
- [Perform a Rolling Restart](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance/rolling-restart.md): Learn how to perform a rolling restart of your Redpanda cluster.
- [Configure Topic Properties](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/cluster-maintenance/topic-property-configuration.md): Learn how to configure topic properties to control Redpanda's behavior for individual topics, including retention, cleanup policies, and Tiered Storage settings.
- [Redpanda Console](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/console.md): Learn how to manage Redpanda using Redpanda Console.
- [Fast Commission and Decommission Brokers](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/fast-commission-decommission.md): Configure fast partition movement during cluster resize for high availability.
- [Integrate Redpanda with Iceberg](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/iceberg.md): Generate Iceberg tables for your Redpanda topics for data lakehouse access.
- [About Iceberg Topics](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/iceberg/about-iceberg-topics.md): Learn how Redpanda can integrate topics with Apache Iceberg.
- [Query Iceberg Topics using AWS Glue](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/iceberg/iceberg-topics-aws-glue.md): Add Redpanda topics as Iceberg tables that you can query from AWS Glue Data Catalog.
- [Query Iceberg Topics using Databricks and Unity Catalog](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/iceberg/iceberg-topics-databricks-unity.md): Add Redpanda topics as Iceberg tables that you can query in Databricks managed by Unity Catalog.
- [Query Iceberg Topics](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/iceberg/query-iceberg-topics.md): Query Redpanda topic data stored in Iceberg tables, based on the topic Iceberg mode and schema.
- [Query Iceberg Topics using Snowflake and Open Catalog](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/iceberg/redpanda-topics-iceberg-snowflake-catalog.md): Add Redpanda topics as Iceberg tables that you can query in Snowflake using an Open Catalog integration.
- [Integrate with REST Catalogs](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/iceberg/rest-catalog.md): Integrate Redpanda topics with managed Iceberg REST Catalogs.
- [Specify Iceberg Schema](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/iceberg/specify-iceberg-schema.md): Learn about supported Iceberg modes and how you can integrate schemas with Iceberg topics.
- [Use Iceberg Catalogs](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/iceberg/use-iceberg-catalogs.md): Learn how to access Redpanda topic data stored in Iceberg tables, using table metadata or a catalog integration.
- [Optimize I/O](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/io-optimization.md): Learn how to optimize I/O performance.
- [Manage Redpanda in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes.md): Learn how to manage Redpanda in Kubernetes.
- [Configure Redpanda in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/k-configure-helm-chart.md): Customize the values of the Redpanda Helm chart or Redpanda resource to configure both the Redpanda cluster and the Kubernetes components.
- [Decommission Brokers in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/k-decommission-brokers.md): Remove a Redpanda broker from the cluster without risking data loss or causing instability.
- [Create and Manage Kafka Connect Connectors in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/k-manage-connectors.md): Learn how to create and manage connectors using Redpanda Console or the Kafka Connect REST API.
- [Manage Pod Resources in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/k-manage-resources.md): Configure your Pod resources such as memory, CPU, and storage.
- [Manage Topics with the Redpanda Operator](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/k-manage-topics.md): Use the Topic resource to declaratively create Kafka topics as part of a Redpanda deployment. Each Topic resource is mapped to a topic in your Redpanda cluster. The topic controller keeps the...
- [Enable the PVCUnbinder](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/k-nodewatcher.md): The PVCUnbinder is an emergency backstop for Redpanda clusters that use PersistentVolumes (PVs) for the Redpanda data directory. When a node running a Redpanda Pod suddenly goes offline, the...
- [Enable Rack Awareness in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/k-rack-awareness.md): Enable rack awareness to place partition replicas across different failure zones.
- [Remote Read Replicas in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/k-remote-read-replicas.md): Create read-only topics (Remote Read Replica topics) that mirror topics on a different cluster.
- [Resilience Testing in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/k-resilience-testing.md): With resilience testing, you can introduce failures and observe how the system behaves under each failure scenario.
- [Perform a Rolling Restart of Redpanda in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/k-rolling-restart.md): Learn how to perform a rolling restart of your Redpanda cluster when it's running in Kubernetes.
- [Scale Redpanda in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/k-scale-redpanda.md): Learn how to scale a Redpanda cluster vertically to increase its resources and horizontally to add or remove brokers from a cluster.
- [Manage Schemas with the Redpanda Operator](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/k-schema-controller.md): Use the Schema resource to declaratively create and manage schemas as part of a Redpanda deployment in Kubernetes.
- [Monitor in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/monitoring.md): Find topics about how to monitor Redpanda deployments in Kubernetes.
- [Monitor Kafka Connect in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/monitoring/k-monitor-connectors.md): Monitor the health of Kafka Connect using managed connector metrics.
- [Monitor Redpanda in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/monitoring/k-monitor-redpanda.md): Monitor the health of your system to predict issues and optimize performance.
- [Networking and Connectivity in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/networking.md): Learn how to set up and manage network connections for Redpanda in Kubernetes. This section covers a range of topics, including how to enable external access, connect clients to a Redpanda cluster...
- [Configure External Access](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/networking/external.md): Use Kubernetes Services to expose your Redpanda cluster to clients outside of your Kubernetes cluster.
- [Use a Custom Service for External Access](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/networking/external/k-custom-services.md): Expose your Redpanda cluster to clients outside of your Kubernetes cluster by using a custom Service.
- [Configure External Access through LoadBalancer Services](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/networking/external/k-loadbalancer.md): Use LoadBalancer Services to expose your Redpanda cluster to clients outside of your Kubernetes cluster.
- [Configure External Access through a NodePort Service](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/networking/external/k-nodeport.md): Use a NodePort Service to expose your Redpanda cluster to clients outside of your Kubernetes cluster.
- [Configure Listeners in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/networking/k-configure-listeners.md): Configure your Redpanda deployment in Kubernetes to meet specific network requirements by customizing advertised ports and TLS certificates for each listener. Learn to enable or disable access to...
- [Connect to Redpanda in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/networking/k-connect-to-redpanda.md): Learn how to connect to a Redpanda cluster running in Kubernetes.
- [About Networking and Connectivity in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/networking/k-networking-and-connectivity.md): Learn how internal and external connectivity works when Redpanda is running in Kubernetes.
- [Security for Redpanda in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/security.md): Learn what options are available for securing Redpanda clusters, including TLS encryption, authentication, authorization, and audit logging.
- [Authentication and Authorization for Redpanda in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/security/authentication.md): Learn how to configure authentication and authorization for Redpanda in Kubernetes using Helm values or the User resource with the Redpanda Operator.
- [Configure Authentication for Redpanda in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/security/authentication/k-authentication.md): Use Helm values or the Redpanda resource manifest to enable authentication for Redpanda. This method provides a way to configure authentication during the initial deployment or updates to the cluster...
- [Manage Users and ACLs with the Redpanda Operator](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/security/authentication/k-user-controller.md): Use the User resource to declaratively create and manage users and ACLs as part of a Redpanda deployment. Each User resource is mapped to a user in your Redpanda cluster. The user controller keeps...
- [Manage Roles with the Redpanda Operator](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/security/authorization/k-role-controller.md): Use the RedpandaRole resource to declaratively create and manage roles as part of a Redpanda deployment. Each RedpandaRole resource defines a set of permissions that can be assigned to multiple...
- [Audit Logging in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/security/k-audit-logging.md): Learn how to use Redpanda's audit logging capabilities.
- [TLS for Redpanda in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/security/tls.md): Use TLS to authenticate Redpanda brokers and encrypt communication between clients and brokers.
- [Use cert-manager to manage TLS certificates](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/security/tls/k-cert-manager.md): Learn how to enable TLS encryption in your Redpanda cluster and use cert-manager to simplify the process of obtaining, renewing, and using certificates.
- [Use Kubernetes Secrets to manage TLS certificates](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/security/tls/k-secrets.md): Create TLS files and store them in Kubernetes Secret resources to configure Redpanda listeners with TLS certificates.
- [Storage for Redpanda in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/storage.md): Find information about Redpanda storage in Kubernetes.
- [Configure Storage for the Redpanda data directory in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/storage/k-configure-storage.md): Configure Redpanda to store the data directory in PersistentVolumes, hostPath volumes, or emptyDir volumes.
- [Delete PersistentVolumes in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/storage/k-delete-persistentvolume.md): Learn how to delete a PersistentVolume (PV) before removing a broker and its data from the cluster or to perform maintenance or upgrades on the PersistentVolume.
- [Store the Redpanda Data Directory in emptyDir Volumes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/storage/k-emptydir.md): Learn how to configure Redpanda to store the data directory in Kubernetes emptyDir volumes. This setup is only for development environments.
- [Store the Redpanda Data Directory in hostPath Volumes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/storage/k-hostpath.md): Learn how to configure Redpanda to store the data directory in Kubernetes hostPath volumes. This setup is only for development environments.
- [Store the Redpanda Data Directory in PersistentVolumes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/storage/k-persistent-storage.md): Learn how to configure Redpanda to store the data directory in Kubernetes PersistentVolumes with a static provisioner or a dynamic provisioner.
- [Expand PersistentVolumes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/storage/k-resize-persistentvolumes.md): Learn how to expand the size of your PersistentVolumes to give Redpanda brokers more storage capacity.
- [Supported Volume Types for Data in Redpanda](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/storage/k-volume-types.md): Understand the three Kubernetes volume types supported by Redpanda, their lifecycles, use cases, storage locations, and their suitability for different Redpanda data requirements.
- [Tiered Storage in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/tiered-storage.md): Tiered Storage helps to lower storage costs by offloading log segments to object storage.
- [Fast Commission and Decommission Brokers in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/tiered-storage/k-fast-commission-decommission.md): Configure fast partition movement during cluster resize for high availability.
- [Recovery Mode in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/tiered-storage/k-recovery-mode.md): Recovery mode starts Redpanda with limited functionality and disables partitions so you can repair a failed cluster.
- [Remote Read Replicas in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/tiered-storage/k-remote-read-replicas.md): Learn how to create a Remote Read Replica topic, which is a read-only topic that mirrors a topic on a different cluster.
- [Use Tiered Storage in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/tiered-storage/k-tiered-storage.md): Configure your Redpanda cluster to offload log segments to object storage and save storage costs.
- [Topic Recovery in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/tiered-storage/k-topic-recovery.md): Restore a single topic from object storage.
- [Whole Cluster Restore for Disaster Recovery in Kubernetes](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/kubernetes/tiered-storage/k-whole-cluster-restore.md): Restore a failed cluster, including its metadata.
- [Monitor Redpanda](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/monitoring.md): Metrics to monitor the health of your system to predict issues and optimize performance.
- [Mountable Topics](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/mountable-topics.md): Safely attach and detach Tiered Storage topics to and from a Redpanda cluster.
- [Maintenance Mode](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/node-management.md): Enable maintenance mode to temporarily take a broker offline, for example during a rolling upgrade.
- [Enable Rack Awareness](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/rack-awareness.md): Enable rack awareness to place partition replicas across different failure zones.
- [Raft Group Reconfiguration](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/raft-group-reconfiguration.md): Learn how the Redpanda Raft group protocol provides consistency and availability during reconfiguration.
- [Recovery Mode](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/recovery-mode.md): Recovery mode starts Redpanda with limited functionality and disables partitions so you can repair a failed cluster.
- [Remote Read Replicas](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/remote-read-replicas.md): Learn how to create a Remote Read Replica topic, which is a read-only topic that mirrors a topic on a different cluster.
- [Schema Registry](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/schema-reg.md): Redpanda's Schema Registry provides the interface to store and manage event schemas.
- [Use Schema Registry](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/schema-reg/manage-schema-reg.md): Learn how to add, delete, and update schemas in Redpanda Streaming.
- [Server-Side Schema ID Validation](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/schema-reg/schema-id-validation.md): Learn about server-side schema ID validation for clients using SerDes that produce to Redpanda brokers, and learn how to configure Redpanda to inspect and reject records with invalid schema IDs.
- [Use the Schema Registry API](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/schema-reg/schema-reg-api.md): Perform common Schema Registry management operations with the API.
- [Schema Registry Authorization](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/schema-reg/schema-reg-authorization.md): Learn how to set up and manage Schema Registry Authorization using ACL definitions that control user access to specific Schema Registry operations.
- [Redpanda Schema Registry](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/schema-reg/schema-reg-overview.md): Redpanda's Schema Registry provides the interface to store and manage event schemas.
- [Security](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/security.md): Learn how to configure authentication, authorization, encryption, listeners, and other security features.
- [Configure Authentication](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/security/authentication.md): Redpanda supports multiple forms of authentication including SASL/SCRAM, mTLS with principal mapping, and basic authentication.
- [Configure Authorization](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/security/authorization.md): Redpanda provides two mechanisms for controlling user permissions.
- [Configure Access Control Lists](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/security/authorization/acl.md): Learn how to use ACLs to configure fine-grained access to Redpanda resources.
- [Configure Role-Based Access Control](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/security/authorization/rbac.md): Role-based access controls are an extension to access control lists for managing permissions at scale.
- [Configure Kafka TLS Encryption](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/security/encryption.md): Enable encryption with TLS or mTLS.
- [Configure Redpanda for FIPS](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/security/fips-compliance.md): Configure Redpanda to operate in FIPS compliance mode.
- [IAM Roles](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/security/iam-roles.md): For Redpanda Streaming clusters deployed on a public cloud platform, cloud provider IAM roles and managed identities provide a safer alternative to the less secure static credential system, which is...
- [Configure Listeners](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/security/listener-configuration.md): Use listeners to advertise the location of the broker, so other brokers in the cluster can be found.
- [Tiered Storage](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/tiered-storage-linux.md): Tiered Storage helps to lower storage costs by offloading log segments to object storage.
- [Use Tiered Storage](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/tiered-storage.md): Configure your Redpanda cluster to offload log segments to cloud storage and save storage costs.
- [Topic Recovery](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/topic-recovery.md): Restore a single topic from object storage.
- [Whole Cluster Restore for Disaster Recovery](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/25.2/manage/whole-cluster-restore.md): Restore a failed cluster, including its metadata.