.. _kafka_operations:

Overview of |ak| Operations
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This guide contains topics to help you manage an |ak-tm| cluster.

Here, we will cover three main topics:

* Deploying your cluster to production, including best practices and important configuration that should (or should not!) be changed
* Performing post-deployment logistics, such as a rolling restart or backup of your cluster
* Monitoring your cluster’s vital statistics, understanding which behaviors are normal and which should be cause for alarm, and interpreting various stats provided by |ak|

If you're just getting started with |cp| and |ak|, see also :ref:`ak-basics` and :ref:`quickstart`.

The following topics are included in this guide:

- :ref:`cp-production-recommendations`
- :ref:`kafka_post_deployment`
- :ref:`sbc`
- :ref:`rebalancer`
- :ref:`kafka_monitoring`
- :ref:`metrics_reporter`
- :ref:`tiered-storage`
  

Related content
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- :ref:`kafka-dynamic-configurations`
- :ref:`operations_overview`
- :ref:`streams_operations`