List Channels

Using the AWS Management Console

1. Open the Amazon MSK console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/msk/home?region=us-east-1#/home/.

2. In the navigation pane, choose Clusters.

3. Choose the name of your Amazon MSK Provisioned cluster with Express brokers.

4. Choose the Channel tab.

All Channels for the cluster are listed with name, state, destination type, and creation time.

Using the AWS CLI

aws kafka list-channels \
    --cluster-arn "arn:aws:kafka:us-east-1:123456789012:cluster/my-express-cluster/abc123"

Note

Use --topic-name-filter "orders-topic" to return only Channels whose source topic name matches the value. Use --max-results and --next-token to page through results.

Response:

{
    "Channels": [
        {
            "ChannelArn": "arn:aws:kafka:us-east-1:123456789012:channel/my-express-cluster/abc123/orders-channel",
            "ChannelName": "orders-channel",
            "Status": "ACTIVE",
            "DestinationType": "ICEBERG",
            "CreationTime": "2026-06-18T10:30:00.000Z"
        },
        {
            "ChannelArn": "arn:aws:kafka:us-east-1:123456789012:channel/my-express-cluster/abc123/clickstream-channel",
            "ChannelName": "clickstream-channel",
            "Status": "ACTIVE",
            "DestinationType": "S3",
            "CreationTime": "2026-06-19T08:15:00.000Z"
        }
    ],
    "NextToken": null
}

API reference — see ListChannels in the Amazon MSK API Reference.