# Cluster Maintenance

> 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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-   [Configure Cluster Properties](cluster-property-configuration/)

    Learn how to configure cluster properties.

-   [Configure Broker Properties](node-property-configuration/)

    Learn how to configure broker properties with the `redpanda.yaml` file.

-   [Configure Topic Properties](topic-property-configuration/)

    Learn how to configure topic properties to control Redpanda's behavior for individual topics, including retention, cleanup policies, and Tiered Storage settings.

-   [Cluster Balancing](cluster-balancing/)

    Learn about the different tools Redpanda provides for balanced clusters.

-   [Configure Continuous Data Balancing](continuous-data-balancing/)

    Continuous Data Balancing simplifies operations with self-healing clusters that dynamically balance partitions.

-   [Decommission Brokers](decommission-brokers/)

    Remove a broker so that it is no longer considered part of the cluster.

-   [Maintenance Mode](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/current/manage/node-management/)

    Enable maintenance mode to temporarily take a broker offline, for example during a rolling upgrade.

-   [Perform a Rolling Restart](rolling-restart/)

    Learn how to perform a rolling restart of your Redpanda cluster.

-   [Audit Logging](https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/current/manage/audit-logging/)

    Learn how to use Redpanda's audit logging capabilities.

-   [Manage Disk Space](disk-utilization/)

    Redpanda provides several ways to manage disk space to ensure the stability of a cluster.

-   [About Client Throughput Quotas](about-throughput-quotas/)

    Understand how Redpanda's user-based and client ID-based throughput quotas work, including entity hierarchy, precedence rules, and quota tracking behavior.

-   [Manage Throughput](manage-throughput/)

    Configure broker-wide and client-specific throughput quotas to prevent resource exhaustion and noisy-neighbor issues.

-   [Compaction Settings](compaction-settings/)

    Redpanda's approach to compaction and options for configuring it.

-   [Configure Client Connections](configure-client-connections/)

    Learn about guidelines for configuring client connections in Redpanda clusters for optimal availability.

-   [Forced partition recovery](partition-recovery/)

    Recover a single partition using the Admin API.

-   [Node-wise Partition Recovery](nodewise-partition-recovery/)

    Feature to recover partitions that have lost a majority of replicas.