# rpk redpanda admin brokers decommission-status > 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) --- title: rpk redpanda admin brokers decommission-status latest-redpanda-tag: v26.1.14 latest-console-tag: v3.10.0 latest-operator-version: v26.2.1 # EOL = End-of-Life (support lifecycle status) page-is-nearing-eol: "false" page-is-past-eol: "false" page-eol-date: March 31, 2027 latest-connect-version: 4.104.0 docname: rpk/rpk-redpanda/rpk-redpanda-admin-brokers-decommission-status page-component-name: streaming page-version: "26.1" page-component-version: "26.1" page-component-title: Streaming page-relative-src-path: rpk/rpk-redpanda/rpk-redpanda-admin-brokers-decommission-status.adoc page-edit-url: https://github.com/redpanda-data/docs/edit/v/26.1/modules/reference/pages/rpk/rpk-redpanda/rpk-redpanda-admin-brokers-decommission-status.adoc description: Show the progress of a node decommissioning. When a node is being decommissioned, this command reports the decommissioning progress as follows, where PARTITION-SIZE is in bytes. page-git-created-date: "2023-08-04" page-git-modified-date: "2026-07-17" support-status: supported --- Show the progress of a node decommissioning. When a node is being decommissioned, this command reports the decommissioning progress as follows, where PARTITION-SIZE is in bytes. Using `-H`, it prints the partition size in a human-readable format. $ `rpk` redpanda admin brokers decommission-status 4. ## [](#usage)Usage ```bash rpk redpanda admin brokers decommission-status [BROKER ID] [flags] ``` ### [](#decommission-progress)Decommission Progress PARTITION MOVING-TO COMPLETION-% PARTITION-SIZE BYTES-MOVED BYTES-REMAINING kafka/test/0 3 13 1731773243 228114727 1503658516 kafka/test/4 3 1 1645952961 18752660 1627200301 kafka/test2/3 3 5 2752632301 140975805 2611656496 kafka/test2/4 3 6 2975443783 181581219 2793862564 If a partition cannot be moved for some reason, the command reports the problematic partition in the 'REALLOCATION FAILURE DETAILS' or 'ALLOCATION FAILURES' section and decommission fails. Typical scenarios for failure include: there are no brokers that have enough space to allocate a partition, or that can satisfy rack constraints, etc. \=== Reallocation Failure Details \=== Partition Reason kafka/foo/1 Missing partition size information, all replicas may be offline kafka/foo/7 Missing partition size information, all replicas may be offline \== Flags | Value | Type | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | -d, --detailed | bool | Print how much data moved and remaining in bytes. | | -H, --human-readable | bool | Print the partition size in a human-readable form. | \== Global flags | Value | Type | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | --config | string | Redpanda or rpk config file; default search paths are ~/.config/rpk/rpk.yaml, $PWD/redpanda.yaml, and /etc/redpanda/redpanda.yaml. | | -X, --config-opt | stringArray | Override rpk configuration settings; -X help for detail or -X list for terser detail. | | --ignore-profile | bool | Ignore rpk.yaml and redpanda.yaml; use default settings. | | --profile | string | rpk profile to use. | | -v, --verbose | bool | Enable verbose logging. |