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6 kubectl top - Display Resource (CPU/Memory/Storage) usage.
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11 kubectl top [OPTIONS]
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16 Display Resource (CPU/Memory/Storage) usage.
17 The top command allows you to see the resource consumption for nodes or
20 pods.
21 This command requires Metrics Server to be correctly configured and
24 working on the server.
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29 --add-dir-header=false
30 If true, adds the file directory to the header
31 --alsologtostderr=false
34 log to standard error as well as files
35 --application-metrics-count-limit=100
38 Max number of application metrics to store (per container)
39 --as=""
42 Username to impersonate for the operation
43 --as-group=[]
46 Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated
47 to specify multiple groups.
48 --azure-container-registry-config=""
51 Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration
52 information.
53 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id"
56 Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first
57 one that exists.
58 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/http-cache"
61 Default HTTP cache directory
62 --certificate-authority=""
65 Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
66 --client-certificate=""
69 Path to a client certificate file for TLS
70 --client-key=""
73 Path to a client key file for TLS
74 --cloud-provider-gce-l7lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16
77 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L7 LB traffic proxy health checks
78 --cloud-provider-gce-lb-src-cidrs=130.211.0.0/22,209.85.152.0/22,209.85.204.0/22,35.191.0.0/16
81 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L4 LB traffic proxy health checks
82 --cluster=""
85 The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
86 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json"
89 location of the container hints file
90 --containerd="/run/containerd/containerd.sock"
93 containerd endpoint
94 --containerd-namespace="k8s.io"
97 containerd namespace
98 --context=""
101 The name of the kubeconfig context to use
102 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300
105 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for
106 notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
107 already have such a toleration.
108 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300
111 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for
112 unreachable:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does
113 not already have such a toleration.
114 --disable-root-cgroup-stats=false
117 Disable collecting root Cgroup stats
118 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
121 docker endpoint
122 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist=""
125 a comma-separated list of environment variable keys that needs to
126 be collected for docker containers
127 --docker-only=false
130 Only report docker containers in addition to root stats
131 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker"
134 DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a
135 fallback, default: /var/lib/docker)
136 --docker-tls=false
139 use TLS to connect to docker
140 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem"
143 path to trusted CA
144 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem"
147 path to client certificate
148 --docker-tls-key="key.pem"
151 path to private key
152 --enable-load-reader=false
155 Whether to enable cpu load reader
156 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0"
159 Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a
160 comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types
161 (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default
162 is applied to all non-specified event types
163 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0"
166 Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma
167 separated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.:
168 creation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is
169 applied to all non-specified event types
170 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s
173 Interval between global housekeepings
174 --housekeeping-interval=10s
177 Interval between container housekeepings
178 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
181 If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity.
182 This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
183 --kubeconfig=""
186 Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
187 --log-backtrace-at=:0
190 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
191 --log-cadvisor-usage=false
194 Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container
195 --log-dir=""
198 If non-empty, write log files in this directory
199 --log-file=""
202 If non-empty, use this log file
203 --log-file-max-size=1800
206 Defines the maximum size a log file can grow to. Unit is megabytes.
207 If the value is 0, the maximum file size is unlimited.
208 --log-flush-frequency=5s
211 Maximum number of seconds between log flushes
212 --logtostderr=true
215 log to standard error instead of files
216 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
219 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
220 first one that exists.
221 --match-server-version=false
224 Require server version to match client version
225 -n, --namespace=""
228 If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
229 --password=""
232 Password for basic authentication to the API server
233 --profile="none"
236 Name of profile to capture. One of
237 (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)
238 --profile-output="profile.pprof"
241 Name of the file to write the profile to
242 --request-timeout="0"
245 The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server
246 request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g.
247 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
248 -s, --server=""
251 The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
252 --skip-headers=false
255 If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages
256 --skip-log-headers=false
259 If true, avoid headers when opening log files
260 --stderrthreshold=2
263 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
264 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s
267 Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration,
268 and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction
269 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor"
272 database name
273 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086"
276 database host:port
277 --storage-driver-password="root"
280 database password
281 --storage-driver-secure=false
284 use secure connection with database
285 --storage-driver-table="stats"
288 table name
289 --storage-driver-user="root"
292 database username
293 --tls-server-name=""
296 Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not
297 provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used
298 --token=""
301 Bearer token for authentication to the API server
302 --update-machine-info-interval=5m0s
305 Interval between machine info updates.
306 --user=""
309 The name of the kubeconfig user to use
310 --username=""
313 Username for basic authentication to the API server
314 -v, --v=0
317 number for the log level verbosity
318 --version=false
321 Print version information and quit
322 --vmodule=
325 comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered
326 logging
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331 kubectl(1), kubectl-top-node(1), kubectl-top-pod(1),
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336 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
337 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
338 been automatically generated since!
339Eric Paris kubernetes User Manuals KUBERNETES(1)