Redpanda Streaming: Debugging & Diagnostics

A practical debugging playbook for Redpanda operators. Covers the first-response workflow when something is wrong, how to collect a debug bundle for support, how to read the Prometheus metrics endpoints, and step-by-step triage for the most common failure modes.

For raw HTTP Admin API endpoint detail see the streaming-admin-api skill. For CLI flag depth on rpk debug bundle see the rpk-debug skill.

Quickstart

The first three moves when something is wrong.

1. Check cluster health

# Overall cluster health — are all brokers up? Any leaderless/under-replicated partitions?
rpk cluster health

# List brokers with their current status
rpk cluster info