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This guide walks you through the quickest way to get started with the following methods to manage topics.

pulsar-admin CLI is a command-line tool and is available in the bin folder of your Pulsar installation.

Check the detailed steps below.

To manage topics using pulsar-admin CLI, complte the following steps.

  1. Set the service URL.

  2. Create a partitioned topic.

  3. Update the number of a partition.

  4. Produce messages to the topic.

  5. Check the stats of the topic.

  6. Delete the topic.

Prerequisites

  • Install and start Pulsar standalone. This tutorial runs Pulsar 2.11 as an example.

Steps

Step 1: Set the service URLs to point to the broker service in client.conf.

```bash
webServiceUrl=http://localhost:8080/
brokerServiceUrl=pulsar://localhost:6650/
```

Step 2: Create a persistent topic named test-topic-1 with 6 partitions.

**Input**

```bash
bin/pulsar-admin topics create-partitioned-topic \
persistent://public/default/test-topic-1 \
--partitions 6
```

**Output**

There is no output. You can check the status of the topic in Step 5.

Step 3: Update the number of the partition to 8.

**Input**

```bash
bin/pulsar-admin topics update-partitioned-topic \
persistent://public/default/test-topic-1 \
--partitions 8
```

**Output**

There is no output. You can check the number of partitions in Step 5.

Step 4: Produce some messages to the partitioned topic test-topic-1.

**Input**

```bash
bin/pulsar-perf produce -u pulsar://localhost:6650 -r 1000 -i 1000 persistent://public/default/test-topic-1
```

**Output**

```bash
2023-03-07T15:33:56,832+0800 [main] INFO  org.apache.pulsar.testclient.PerformanceProducer - Starting Pulsar perf producer with config: {
  "confFile" : "/Users/yu/apache-pulsar-2.11.0/conf/client.conf",
  "serviceURL" : "pulsar://localhost:6650",
  "authPluginClassName" : "",
  "authParams" : "",
  "tlsTrustCertsFilePath" : "",
  "tlsAllowInsecureConnection" : false,
  "tlsHostnameVerificationEnable" : false,
  "maxConnections" : 1,
  "statsIntervalSeconds" : 1000,
  "ioThreads" : 1,
  "enableBusyWait" : false,
  "listenerName" : null,
  "listenerThreads" : 1,
  "maxLookupRequest" : 50000,
  "topics" : [ "persistent://public/default/test-topic-1" ],
  "numTestThreads" : 1,
  "msgRate" : 1000,
  "msgSize" : 1024,
  "numTopics" : 1,
"numProducers" : 1,
  "separator" : "-",
  "sendTimeout" : 0,
  "producerName" : null,
  "adminURL" : "http://localhost:8080/",

...

2023-03-07T15:35:03,769+0800 [Thread-0] INFO  org.apache.pulsar.testclient.PerformanceProducer - Aggregated latency stats --- Latency: mean:   8.931 ms - med:   3.775 - 95pct:  32.144 - 99pct:  98.432 - 99.9pct: 216.088 - 99.99pct: 304.807 - 99.999pct: 349.391 - Max: 351.235
```

Step 5: Check the internal stats of the partitioned topic test-topic-1.

**Input**

```bash
bin/pulsar-admin topics partitioned-stats-internal \
persistent://public/default/test-topic-1
```

**Output**

Below is a part of the output. For detailed explanations of topic stats, see Pulsar statistics.

```bash
{
  "metadata" : {
    "partitions" : 8
  },
  "partitions" : {
    "persistent://public/default/test-topic-1-partition-1" : {
      "entriesAddedCounter" : 4213,
      "numberOfEntries" : 4213,
      "totalSize" : 8817693,
      "currentLedgerEntries" : 4212,
      "currentLedgerSize" : 8806289,
      "lastLedgerCreatedTimestamp" : "2023-03-07T15:33:59.367+08:00",
      "waitingCursorsCount" : 0,
      "pendingAddEntriesCount" : 0,
      "lastConfirmedEntry" : "65:4211",
      "state" : "LedgerOpened",
      "ledgers" : [ {
        "ledgerId" : 49,
        "entries" : 1,
        "size" : 11404,
        "offloaded" : false,
        "underReplicated" : false
      }, {
        "ledgerId" : 65,
        "entries" : 0,
        "size" : 0,
        "offloaded" : false,
        "underReplicated" : false
      } ],
      "cursors" : {
        "test-subscriptio-1" : {
          "markDeletePosition" : "49:-1",
          "readPosition" : "49:0",
          "waitingReadOp" : false,
          "pendingReadOps" : 0,
          "messagesConsumedCounter" : 0,
          "cursorLedger" : -1,
          "cursorLedgerLastEntry" : -1,
  "individuallyDeletedMessages" : "[]",
          "lastLedgerSwitchTimestamp" : "2023-03-06T16:41:32.801+08:00",
          "state" : "NoLedger",
          "numberOfEntriesSinceFirstNotAckedMessage" : 1,
          "totalNonContiguousDeletedMessagesRange" : 0,
          "subscriptionHavePendingRead" : false,
          "subscriptionHavePendingReplayRead" : false,
          "properties" : { }
        },
        "test-subscription-1" : {
          "markDeletePosition" : "49:-1",
          "readPosition" : "49:0",
          "waitingReadOp" : false,
          "pendingReadOps" : 0,
          "messagesConsumedCounter" : 0,
          "cursorLedger" : -1,
          "cursorLedgerLastEntry" : -1,
          "individuallyDeletedMessages" : "[]",
          "lastLedgerSwitchTimestamp" : "2023-03-06T16:41:32.801+08:00",
          "state" : "NoLedger",
          "numberOfEntriesSinceFirstNotAckedMessage" : 1,
          "totalNonContiguousDeletedMessagesRange" : 0,
          "subscriptionHavePendingRead" : false,
          "subscriptionHavePendingReplayRead" : false,
          "properties" : { }
        }
      },
      "schemaLedgers" : [ ],
      "compactedLedger" : {
        "ledgerId" : -1,
        "entries" : -1,
        "size" : -1,
        "offloaded" : false,
        "underReplicated" : false
      }
    },
...
```

Step 6: Delete the topic test-topic-1.

**Input**

```bash
bin/pulsar-admin topics delete-partitioned-topic persistent://public/default/test-topic-1
```

**Output**

There is no output. You can verify whether the _test-topic-1_ exists or not using the following command.

**Input**

List topics in `public/default` namespace.

```bash
bin/pulsar-admin topics list public/default
```
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