# rpk cluster brokers decommission-status

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title: rpk cluster brokers decommission-status
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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.
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<!-- Source: https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/current/reference/rpk/rpk-cluster/rpk-cluster-brokers-decommission-status.md -->

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.

```bash
rpk cluster brokers decommission-status 4
```

DECOMMISSION PROGRESS
=====================
PARTITION                      MOVING-TO  COMPLETION-%  PARTITION-SIZE
kafka/test/0                   3          9             1699470920
kafka/test/4                   3          0             1614258779
kafka/test2/3                  3          3             2722706514
kafka/test2/4                  3          4             2945518089
kafka\_internal/id\_allocator/0  3          0             3562

Using `--detailed` / `-d`, it additionally prints granular reports.

```bash
rpk cluster brokers decommission-status 4 -d
```

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.

> 📝 **NOTE**
>
> This command was introduced in version v26.2.1.

## [](#usage)Usage

```bash
rpk cluster brokers decommission-status [BROKER ID] [flags]
```

### [](#reallocation-failure-details)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)Flags

| Value | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| -d, --detailed | bool | Print how much data moved and remaining in bytes. |
| --format | string | Output format (json,yaml,text,wide,help). |
| -H, --human-readable | bool | Print the partition size in a human-readable form. |

## [](#global-flags)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. |