# rpk cluster

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title: rpk cluster
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description: Manage and inspect Redpanda cluster configuration, health, and maintenance operations.
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<!-- Source: https://docs.redpanda.com/streaming/current/reference/rpk/rpk-cluster/rpk-cluster.md -->

Manage and inspect Redpanda cluster configuration, health, and maintenance operations.

## [](#usage)Usage

```bash
rpk cluster [flags]
```

## [](#subcommands)Subcommands

| Command | Description |
| --- | --- |
| rpk cluster brokers | Manage Redpanda cluster brokers. |
| rpk cluster config | View and modify Redpanda cluster configuration properties. Modified properties are propagated immediately to all brokers. |
| rpk cluster connections | Manage and monitor cluster connections. |
| rpk cluster health | Queries cluster for health overview. Health overview is created based on the health reports collected periodically from all nodes in the cluster. |
| rpk cluster info | Request broker metadata information. The Kafka protocol’s metadata contains information about brokers, topics, and the cluster as a whole. |
| rpk cluster license | Manage cluster license. |
| rpk cluster logdirs | Describe log directories on Redpanda brokers. |
| rpk cluster loggers | List and configure Redpanda broker loggers. |
| rpk cluster maintenance | Interact with cluster maintenance mode. Maintenance mode is a state that a node may be placed into in which the node may be shutdown or restarted with minimal disruption to client workloads. |
| rpk cluster partitions | Manage cluster partitions. |
| rpk cluster quotas | Manage Redpanda client quotas. |
| rpk cluster self-test | Start, stop and query runs of Redpanda self-test through the Admin API listener. |
| rpk cluster storage | Manage cluster storage, including mounting and unmounting topics from Tiered Storage. |
| rpk cluster txn | Information about transactions and transactional producers. Transactions allow producing, or consume-modifying-producing, to Redpanda. |
| rpk cluster upgrade | Check and finalize major-version upgrades. When the cluster configuration features_auto_finalization is disabled, an upgrade stays pending after all brokers are on the new version, so you can downgrade while soak-testing. |

## [](#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. |