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

Log Viewer

The Log Viewer streams pod logs in real time inside Kube Inspector. It works for both individual pods and workload-level resources (Deployments, StatefulSets, etc.).

Opening the Log Viewer

  • From a Pod row — Click the Logs button on the pod row.
  • From a workload row — Click the Logs button on a Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet, ReplicaSet, or CronJob row.

A log panel opens in the panel area. Each log session opens as a separate tab, so you can stream logs from multiple pods simultaneously.

Pod Selector

When opening logs from a workload (not a pod directly), a pod selector dropdown appears at the top of the log panel. It lists all pods managed by that workload. Select a pod to switch the log stream to that pod.

Log Streaming

Logs are streamed in real time using the Kubernetes log API (follow=true). New lines appear at the bottom as they are written by the container.

The log viewer supports in-panel text search. Use Ctrl+F to open the search bar and filter visible log lines.

Scrolling

  • The viewer auto-scrolls to the bottom as new lines arrive.
  • Scroll up manually to pause auto-scroll and review earlier output.
  • Scroll back to the bottom to resume auto-scroll.

Closing

Close the log panel tab to stop the log stream. The stream is stopped server-side; no background processes are left running.

Tips

  • Open multiple log panels side-by-side by dragging tabs to split the view — useful for comparing logs across pods.
  • Logs older than what the Kubernetes API returns (controlled by --tail and retention settings on the node) are not available through this viewer. Use a log aggregation system for historical logs.