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Alpha Kube Inspector is under active development — expect bugs and breaking changes.

Monitoring

The Monitoring screen is a live resource-usage dashboard for the cluster, built from metrics-server.

Requires metrics-server

Usage data comes from the Kubernetes metrics API. If metrics-server is not installed in the cluster, the screen shows a notice and no charts. Capacity (but not usage) may still be shown.

Resource monitoring dashboard

What's on screen

  • Cluster summary — total CPU and memory used vs. capacity, with a rolling usage trend.
  • Nodes — per-node CPU and memory usage bars (scrollable when there are many nodes).
  • Top consumers — a sortable, filterable table; switch between Pods and Workloads (Deployments/StatefulSets etc., aggregated from their pods). Each row shows CPU and memory with a bar relative to cluster capacity.

Drill-down

Click any node, pod or workload row to open a detail drawer with:

  • CPU and memory trend charts over the selected time window.
  • For a pod: a per-container usage breakdown.
  • For a workload: its member pods (click one to drill into it).
  • For a node: the pods running on it (click one to drill in).

Time window & snapshots

  • The time-window dropdown (5 min → 2 hours) scales every chart to that range.
  • Take snapshot captures the whole dashboard as a PNG via a native save dialog.

History is live and in-memory

Trends are accumulated while the screen is open (polled every few seconds) and kept in memory only — they reset when the app restarts. There is no long-term/historical store.