  Measurements of the top quark production cross section in proton-proton
collisions with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider are presented.
The measurements require no, one or two electrons or muons in the final state
(single lepton, dilepton, hadronic channel). In addition, the decay modes with
tau leptons are tested (channels with tau leptons). The main focus is on
measurements of differential spectra of $t\bar{t}$ final states, in particular,
measurements that are able to constrain the modelling of additional parton
radiation like the jet multiplicity distribution.
