---
title: "topic show"
slug: "topic-show"
tags: ["5.5"]
updated: 2026-10-27T23:00:54Z
published: 2026-10-27T23:00:54Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/topic-show"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.vastdata.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# topic show

This command shows a topic.

## Usage

```plaintext
topic show --database-name NAME
           --name NAME
```

## Required Parameters

| `--database-name NAME` | The name of the database where the topic resides. |
| --- | --- |
| `--name NAME` | The name of the topic to be displayed. |

## Example

```plaintext
+---------------------------------+--------------------------------+
| Name                            | test-topic-diligent-grackle    |
| Database-name                   | kafka-enterprising-keen-oriole |
| Topic-partitions                | 5                              |
| Num-events                      | 0                              |
| Capacity                        | 0                              |
| Message-timestamp-type          | CreateTime                     |
| Retention-ms                    | 300000                         |
| Message-timestamp-before-max-ms | 9223372036854775807            |
| Message-timestamp-after-max-ms  | 9223372036854775807            |
| Cleanup-policy                  | compact                 |
| Delete-retention-ms             | 86400000                       |
| Min-compaction-lag-ms           | 300000                         |
| Max-message-bytes               | 1048588                        |
+---------------------------------+--------------------------------+
```