# Describe a topic using the AWS Management Console
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1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console, and open the Amazon MSK console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/msk/home?region=us-east-1\#/home/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/msk/home?region=us-east-1#/home/).

1. In the list of clusters, choose the name of the cluster that contains the topic you want to describe.

1. On the cluster details page, choose the **Topics** tab.

1. In the list of topics, choose the name of the topic you want to view.

1. The topic details page shows information about the topic, including its status, partition count, replication factor, and configuration settings.

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query msk` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).