# Manage Topics Using Control Center for Confluent Platform The **Topics** page shows a summary of Apache Kafka® topics for a cluster, and enables you to complete a number of tasks. The fields and values on the **Topics** page vary depending on whether you are operating Control Center in [Reduced infrastructure mode](../overview.md#reduced-infra-mode) or [Normal mode](../overview.md#normal-mode). The tasks you can complete also vary depending on mode. To learn more about Control Center modes, see [Reduced infrastructure mode](../overview.md#control-center-modes). ## Topics page  On the Topics page, you can: * Search for topics. * Show or hide internal topics. #### NOTE Internal topics names start with an underscore (_) and should not be individually modified. Modifying an internal topic could adversely impact your Confluent Platform installation and result in unexpected behavior. * View details such as: * A list of **Topic names** and **Partitions**. * **Topic names**, **Status**, **Partitions**, **Production**, and **Last Produced** in Normal mode. These values are not dynamic, meaning they load when the page is loaded, and update when the page is refreshed. The **Last produced** value for a row is loaded only as that column becomes viewable in the table. For more on topic inspection and the **Last produced** column, see [Topic Inspection via Last-Produced Timestamp (blog post)](https://www.confluent.io/blog/better-kafka-management-with-improved-topic-inspection-in-confluent-part-3/). * Sort the columns in the Topics table by clicking a column header. Note that sorting by **Last produced** time will not be accurate if all rows are not visible. * [Create Topics Using Control Center for Confluent Platform](create.md#c3-add-topics). ## Topic details Select a topic to display overview details for that topic and navigate to other features for topics: - [Schema](/platform/current/control-center/topics/schema.html#topicschema). - Inspect ([Message browser](messages.md#c3-topic-message-browser)). - [Settings](edit.md#c3-edit-topic) for topic configuration. - Query in ksqlDB - Registers a stream or table for a topic. - Consumer lag - [View consumer lag](view.md#c3-view-topic-consume-metrics) at the topic level. You can view consumer lag for a consumer group from the [Consumers](../clients/consumers.md#controlcenter-userguide-consumers) menu. To access the overview page for a Topic: 1. Select a cluster from the navigation bar and click the **Topics** menu item. 2. In the **Topics** table, click the topic name. The topic overview page automatically opens for that topic. In Normal mode, use the **Topic** page to: * View a topic overview with a health roll-up. * Drill into topic metric metrics by clicking the **Production**, **Consumption**, or **Availability** panels. * Search for partitions by partition ID. * View partition, replica placement, offset, and partition size details.  ## Topic tasks In both Normal mode and Reduced infrastructure mode, you can use the Topics page to: * View and manage messages [Messages](messages.md#c3-topic-message-browser). * Configure [schemas](/platform/current/control-center/topics/schema.html#topicschema) for a topic. * Edit, delete and perform additional [Configuration](edit.md#c3-edit-topic) for a topic. ## Related content - For more information about Schema Registry, see [Schema Registry Overview](/platform/current/schema-registry/index.html). - For more information about using Control Center to manage topic schemas, see [Manage Schemas in Confluent Platform](/platform/current/control-center/topics/schema.html#topicschema).