kubetail
Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time (by johanhaleby)
stern
β Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes -- Friendly fork of https://github.com/wercker/stern (by stern)
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3,211 | 2,701 | |
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5.5 | 5.9 | |
about 1 month ago | 9 days ago | |
Shell | Go | |
Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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kubetail
Posts with mentions or reviews of kubetail.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-13.
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Show HN: Kubetail β A private, real-time log viewer for Kubernetes clusters
There is an existing project named kubetail, which is quite popular 3.2K starts https://github.com/johanhaleby/kubetail
- Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time
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Some of the best terminal utilities you have ever used and are still using.
Kubetail
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Top 200 Kubernetes Tools for DevOps Engineer Like You
Thanos - Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. CNCF Sandbox project. https://thanos.io Prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database. Grafana - The tool for beautiful monitoring and metric analytics & dashboards for Graphite, InfluxDB & Prometheus & More Kubetail - Bash script to tail Kubernetes logs from multiple pods at the same time Searchlight - Alerts for Kubernetes linkerd2 Monitoring Mixin for Grafana - Grafana dashboards for linkerd2 monitoring and can work in standalone (default) or in multi cluster setup kuberhaus - Kubernetes resource dashboard with node/pod layout and resource requests Kubernetes Job/CronJob Notifier - This tool sends an alert to slack whenever there is a Kubernetes cronJob/Job failure/success Argus - This tool monitors changes in the filesystem on specified paths
- 27 open-source tools that can make your Kubernetes workflow easier ππ₯³
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What's the best CLI tailing tool for k8s logs?
Kubetail is really nice: https://github.com/johanhaleby/kubetail.
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MacOS and Linux support for KTail - a Kubernetes log viewer with a GUI
Is this the gui version of kubetail?
stern
Posts with mentions or reviews of stern.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-09.
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βΈοΈ Kubernetes: From your docker-compose file to a cluster with Kompose
deploy: stage: deploy image: alpine/k8s:1.29.1 variables: NAMESPACE: $CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG before_script: # init namespace - kubectl config use-context $KUBE_CONTEXT - kubectl create namespace $NAMESPACE || true # download tools - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/stern/stern/releases/download/v1.22.0/stern_1.22.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar zx --directory /usr/bin/ stern && chmod 755 /usr/bin/stern && stern --version - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose/releases/download/v1.32.0/kompose-linux-amd64 -o /usr/local/bin/kompose && chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/kompose && kompose version # show logs asynchronously. Timeout to avoid hanging indefinitely when an error occurs in script section - timeout 1200 stern -n $NAMESPACE "app-" --tail=0 --color=always & # in background, tail new logs if any (current and incoming) pod with this regex as name - timeout 1200 kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get events --watch-only & # in background, tail new events in background script: # first delete CrashLoopBackOff pods, polluting logs - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE delete pod `kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get pods --selector app.kubernetes.io/component=$MODULE | awk '$3 == "CrashLoopBackOff" {print $1}'` || true # now deploying - kompose convert --out k8s/ - kubectl apply -n $NAMESPACE -f k8s/ - echo -e "\e[93;1mWaiting for the new app version to be fully operational...\e[0m" # waiting for successful deployment - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-db - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-back - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE rollout status deploy/app-front # on any error before this line, the script will still wait for these threads to complete, so the initial timeout is important. Adding these commands to after_script does not help - pkill stern || true - pkill kubectl || true after_script: # show namespace content - kubectl config use-context $KUBE_CONTEXT - kubectl -n $NAMESPACE get deploy,service,ingress,pod
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stern VS stern - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 11 Dec 2023
The old repo is dead
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π¦ GitLab CI: 10+ Best Practices to Avoid Widespread Anti-patterns
node-and-git: image: node:18.10-alpine before_script: - apk --no-cache add git kubectl-and-stern: image: alpine/k8s:1.22.13 before_script: # install stern - curl --show-error --silent --location https://github.com/stern/stern/releases/download/v1.22.0/stern_1.22.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar zx --directory /usr/bin/ stern && chmod 755 /usr/bin/stern playwright-and-kubectl: image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.35.1-focal before_script: # install kubectl - curl --show-error --silent --location --remote-name https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.25.3/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl && chmod +x ./kubectl && mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/
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K9s: A lazier way to manage Kubernetes Clusters
I'll add stern (https://github.com/stern/stern) to that - follow logs from multiple pods easily.
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What k8s related tool you wish you knew earlier?
Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes https://github.com/stern/stern
- What's your "IDE" of choice nowadays?
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How to Deploy and Scale Strapi on a Kubernetes Cluster 1/2
stern v1.22.0
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Getting started with kubectl plugins
Link to GitHub Repository
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Julia Evans: Tips for Analyzing Logs
If you are using Kubernetes, I highly recommend using https://github.com/stern/stern
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What daily terminal based tools are you using for cluster management?
Stern: https://github.com/stern/stern for log streaming
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kubetail and stern you can also consider the following projects:
stern - β Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes
awesome-k8s-resources - A curated list of awesome Kubernetes tools and resources.
kubeval - Validate your Kubernetes configuration files, supports multiple Kubernetes versions
kail - kubernetes log viewer
cw - The best way to tail AWS CloudWatch Logs from your terminal
k9s - πΆ Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
openlens-node-pod-menu - Node and pod menus for OpenLens
saw - Fast, multi-purpose tool for AWS CloudWatch Logs
k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
kube-ps1 - Kubernetes prompt info for bash and zsh
quay - Build, Store, and Distribute your Applications and Containers