# Kafka Streams Operations for Confluent Platform Kafka Streams *operations* covers the runtime tasks for a deployed Kafka Streams application: capacity planning and sizing, monitoring stream threads, tasks, state stores, and other internals through metrics, and tracking application health by using JMX and pluggable reporters. For instructions on how to start, stop, or upgrade your application, see [how to run a Kafka Streams application](developer-guide/running-app.md#streams-developer-guide-execution). * [Metrics](kafka-streams-metrics.md) * [Monitor](monitoring.md) * [Plan and Size](sizing.md)