---
title: "Batch Alter Dynamic Broker Configs"
method: POST
path: "/clusters/{cluster_id}/broker-configs:alter"
tags: ["Configs (v3)"]
---

# Batch Alter Dynamic Broker Configs

`POST /clusters/{cluster_id}/broker-configs:alter`

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Update or delete a set of dynamic cluster-wide broker configuration parameters.

## Request body

- AlterConfigBatchRequestData
  - `data` object[], required
    - `name` string, required
    - `value` string, nullable
    - `operation` string, nullable
  - `validate_only` boolean

## Response `204`

No Content

## Other responses

- `400` — Indicates a bad request error. It could be caused by an unexpected request body format or other forms of request validation failure.
- `401` — Indicates a client authentication error. Kafka authentication failures will contain error code 40101 in the response body.
- `403` — Indicates a client authorization error. Kafka authorization failures will contain error code 40301 in the response body.
- `429` — Indicates that a rate limit threshold has been reached, and the client should retry again later.
- `5XX` — A server-side problem that might not be addressable from the client side. Retriable Kafka errors will contain error code 50003 in the response body.

## Changes

- **2023-08-08** (v3) `25e5259d1722` — 1 breaking, 2 info
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `400`
  - api operation id `updateKafkaV3ClusterConfigs` removed and replaced with `updateKafkaClusterConfigs`
  - added the non-success response with the status `403`
- **2023-08-08** (v3) `1be42847ed21` — 3 info
  - api operation id `updateKafkaClusterConfigs` removed and replaced with `updateKafkaV3ClusterConfigs`
  - added the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `400`
  - removed the non-success response with the status `403`
- **2023-03-10** (v3) `bb1cdf42f052` — 1 breaking, 2 info
  - removed the media type `text/plain` for the response with the status `400`
  - api operation id `updateKafkaV3ClusterConfigs` removed and replaced with `updateKafkaClusterConfigs`
  - added the non-success response with the status `403`
- **2023-03-08** (v3) `125174a361e4` — 1 info
  - added the new optional request property `validate_only`
- **2023-03-02** (v3) `0bf677c1cb67` — 1 warning
  - removed the request property `validate_only`

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/confluentinc/apis/rest-admin-api/changes/clusters/:cluster_id/broker-configs:alter/post.md)

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