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name: EventStreams-api_overview
title: API and CLI overview
description: IBM® Event Streams for IBM Cloud® provides a number of API to help use and configure your Event Streams Kafka cluster.
last-updated: 2024-01-29
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# API and CLI overview
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IBM® Event Streams for IBM Cloud® provides a number of API to help use and configure your Event Streams Kafka cluster.
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The following API versions are available:

- [Kafka native API](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/): Kafka exposes all its functionality over a language independent protocol that has clients available in many programming languages. Kafka includes three protocol APIs (Producer, Consumer, Admin) and two additional framework APIs (Streams, Connect).
- [Kafka console tools](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/EventStreams?topic=EventStreams-kafka_console_tools&format=markdown): Apache Kafka comes with various console tools for simple administration and messaging operations.
- [Event Streams Admin REST API](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/event-streams/adminrest): Event Streams provides REST API for administration that you can use to create, delete, list, and update topics.
- [Event Streams REST Producer API](https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/event-streams/restproducer_v2): Event Streams provides REST API for producing to your cluster.
- [CLI reference](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/EventStreams?topic=EventStreams-cli_reference&format=markdown): Event Streams also provides a dedicated CLI plugin that provides a seamless mechanism by which to view and administer the topics, partitions, consumer groups, and configuration of your Event Streams's Kafka instances.