eventstreams037.md

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Using the Administration REST API

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{{site.data.keyword.messagehub}} provides an Administration RESTful API that you can use to create, delete, and list topics. {: shortdesc}

To discover the Administration RESTful API's endpoint, your {{site.data.keyword.Bluemix_short}} application can use the kafka_admin_url property in your application's VCAP_SERVICES environment variable.

You can download the full specification for the API from admin-rest-api.yaml {:new_window}. To view the swagger file use Swagger tools, for example Swagger editor {:new_window}.

The {{site.data.keyword.messagehub}} admin-rest-api {:new_window} directory also contains a useful set of examples of how to call the Administration RESTful API.