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# User Guides

Instructions on performing various EMQX operations.

These guides help administrators and operators manage, configure, secure, monitor, and maintain EMQX deployments. The main contents in this chapter include:

- [Cluster Management](./cluster/create-cluster.md) covers how to create and manage an EMQX cluster, including cluster architecture, cluster security, load balancer configuration, node evacuation, cluster load rebalancing, and performance tuning.
- [Configure EMQX](./configuration/configuration.md) provides basic information about the configuration file, configuration options, and references for detailed configurations.
- [Namespace](./multi-tenancy/namespace-overview.md) explains how to logically group MQTT clients and manage tenant-level isolation, quotas, and rate limits within a shared EMQX cluster.
- [REST API](./api.md) guides you on getting started with the HTTP management API exposed by EMQX for managing clients, topics, subscriptions, and more.
- [Command Line Interface](./cli.md) introduces various startup and management commands supported by EMQX.
- [Security Guide](./security-guide.md) covers network and TLS configuration, authentication, authorization, banned clients, flapping detection, identity governance, audit logs, rate limits, and backup and restore.
- [MQTT Durable Sessions](./durability/durability_introduction.md) guides you to configure the Durable Sessions feature and set parameters for data replicas for high availability.
- [EMQX Dashboard](./dashboard/introduction.md) provides a comprehensive introduction to the built-in management console in EMQX. You will learn how to manage and monitor EMQX clusters, configure various features, and use the required functionalities.
- [Logs and Observability](./observability/overview.md) introduces metric observation and monitoring features in EMQX, facilitating system monitoring and debugging.
- [Extensions](./extensions/introduction.md) helps you extend EMQX through extension mechanisms such as hooks and gRPC hooks.
- [Plugins](./extensions/plugins.md) helps you develop, customize, manage, and use EMQX plugins.
- [Telemetry](./telemetry/telemetry.md) explains how to share your usage information by enabling telemetry to help improve the product.