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| id: admin-api-features |
| title: Pulsar admin interfaces - Features |
| sidebar_label: "Features" |
| description: Get a comprehensive understanding of features of Pulsar admin APIs. |
| --- |
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| Below are the most common tasks you may want to do. For the exhaustive lists of tasks and the method to perform these tasks, see [Tools](admin-api-tools.md). |
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| These administrative tasks are categorized based on Pulsar components. |
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| Category |Components|What do you want to do? |
| |---|---|--- |
| Server|Broker|Operations on brokers.<br/><br/>For example, <br/>- Set dynamic configurations on brokers<br/> - Run health checks against brokers<br/> - Shutdown brokers<br/> - Get broker-level stats metrics |
| Storage|Bookie|Operations on bookie placement policy. <br/><br/>For example, <br/> - Get or set bookie replacement policy |
| Entities|- Topic <br/><br/> - Schema <br/><br/> - Namespace <br/><br/> - Tenant <br/><br/> - Cluster|Operations on topics, schemas, namespaces, tenants, or clusters.<br/><br/> For example, <br/> - Create, update or delete topics, tenants, namespaces, or clusters <br/> - Set isolation policies, configure offload thresholds, or set permissions for namespaces <br/> - Upload, extract, or delete schemas |
| Stream processing|<br/><br/> - Function <br/><br/> - Connector <br/><br/> - Transaction <br/><br/> - Package | Operations on functions, function workers, or connectors. <br/> For example, <br/> - Create, update, and delete functions or connectors <br/> - Get stats of function workers, trigger rebalance of functions to workers <br/><br/> Operations on transactions. <br/> For example, <br/> - Get stats of transactions <br/> - Update the scale of transaction coordinators <br/><br/> Operations on packages. <br/> For example, <br/> - Upload, download, and delete packages |
| Others| - Proxy <br/><br/> - Resource groups <br/><br/> - Resource quotas | Operations on proxy stats. <br/> For example, <br/> - Get various monitoring metrics for proxy stats <br/><br/> Operations on resource groups.<br/>For example, <br/> - Create, update, and delete resource groups <br/><br/>Operations on resource quotas.<br/>For example, <br/> - Set resource quota for namespace bundles |
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| ### Related topics |
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| - To understand the basics, see [Pulsar admin API - Overview](admin-api-overview.md) |
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| - To learn usage scenarios, see [Pulsar admin API - Use cases](admin-api-use-cases.md). |
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| - To perform administrative operations, see [Pulsar admin API - Tools](admin-api-tools.md). |
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| - To get up quickly, see [Pulsar admin API - Get started](admin-get-started.md). |
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| - To check the detailed usage, see the API references below. |
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| - [Java admin API](@pulsar:javadoc:admin@/) |
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| - [REST API](reference-rest-api-overview.md) |
