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# Managing Brokers

On the Brokers page, you can see an overview of all of your Worker nodes and drill down into a node for more information.

The term Brokers refers to nodes running Kafka services (that is, Kubernetes worker nodes, but not master nodes).

Location: Clusters > Cluster Name > Brokers

To view the broker nodes in your cluster:

Click Brokers in the navigation bar. The Brokers page opens.

To see more information about a specific broker:

Click the broker's Id link. The Broker Name ID opens. For more information, see Managing Brokers

## Viewing Broker Details

You can view detailed information about a broker from the Broker Name details page.

Location: Clusters > Cluster Name > Brokers > Broker Name

To view information on a specific broker:

1. Click Brokers in the navigation bar.
2. Click the Broker Name link. The Topic Name page opens.

The following data is displayed.

## Summary

In the Summary section, you can see an overview of your broker, including the number of topics and partitions located on it.

## Metrics

In the Metrics section, you can view information about the data flow.

## Messages count

In the Messages section, you can view a message view chart.

## Per Topic Detail

In the Per Topic Detail section, you can view topic replication and partition information and drill down to view more information about each topic.

To see more information about a specific topic:

Click the Topic Name link in the Per Topic Details section. See Viewing Topic Details