# Flow control — Debug endpoints

> With the APIPriorityAndFairness feature enabled, the kube-apiserver serves the following additional paths at its HTTP(S) ports.

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## Knowledge

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With the APIPriorityAndFairness feature enabled, the kube-apiserver serves the following additional paths at its HTTP(S) ports.

You need to ensure you have permissions to access these endpoints. You don't have to do anything if you are using admin. Permissions can be granted if needed following the RBAC doc to access /debug/api_priority_and_fairness/ by specifying nonResourceURLs.

/debug/api_priority_and_fairness/dump_priority_levels - a listing of all the priority levels and the current state of each. You can fetch like this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
  kubectl get --raw /debug/api_priority_and_fairness/dump_priority_levels
```

The output will be in CSV and similar to this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```none
  PriorityLevelName, ActiveQueues, IsIdle, IsQuiescing, WaitingRequests, ExecutingRequests, DispatchedRequests, RejectedRequests, TimedoutRequests, CancelledRequests
  catch-all,         0,            true,   false,       0,               0,                 1,                  0,                0,                0
  exempt,            0,            true,   false,       0,               0,                 0,                  0,                0,                0
  global-default,    0,            true,   false,       0,               0,                 46,                 0,                0,                0
  leader-election,   0,            true,   false,       0,               0,                 4,                  0,                0,                0
  node-high,         0,            true,   false,       0,               0,                 34,                 0,                0,
```

Explanation for selected column names: IsQuiescing indicates if this priority level will be removed when its queues have been drained.

/debug/api_priority_and_fairness/dump_queues - a listing of all the queues and their current state. You can fetch like this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
  kubectl get --raw /debug/api_priority_and_fairness/dump_queues
```

The output will be in CSV and similar to this …

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