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6 kubectl top pod - Display Resource (CPU/Memory/Storage) usage of pods
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11 kubectl top pod [OPTIONS]
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16 Display Resource (CPU/Memory/Storage) usage of pods.
17 The 'top pod' command allows you to see the resource consumption of
20 pods.
21 Due to the metrics pipeline delay, they may be unavailable for a few
24 minutes since pod creation.
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29 --all-namespaces=false
30 If present, list the requested object(s) across all namespaces.
31 Namespace in current context is ignored even if specified with --names‐
32 pace.
33 --containers=false
36 If present, print usage of containers within a pod.
37 --heapster-namespace="kube-system"
40 Namespace Heapster service is located in
41 --heapster-port=""
44 Port name in service to use
45 --heapster-scheme="http"
48 Scheme (http or https) to connect to Heapster as
49 --heapster-service="heapster"
52 Name of Heapster service
53 -l, --selector=""
56 Selector (label query) to filter on, supports '=', '==', and
57 '!='.(e.g. -l key1=value1,key2=value2)
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62 --allow-verification-with-non-compliant-keys=false
63 Allow a SignatureVerifier to use keys which are technically
64 non-compliant with RFC6962.
65 --alsologtostderr=false
68 log to standard error as well as files
69 --application-metrics-count-limit=100
72 Max number of application metrics to store (per container)
73 --as=""
76 Username to impersonate for the operation
77 --as-group=[]
80 Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated
81 to specify multiple groups.
82 --azure-container-registry-config=""
85 Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration
86 information.
87 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id"
90 Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first
91 one that exists.
92 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/http-cache"
95 Default HTTP cache directory
96 --certificate-authority=""
99 Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
100 --client-certificate=""
103 Path to a client certificate file for TLS
104 --client-key=""
107 Path to a client key file for TLS
108 --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
111 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for LB traffic proxy health checks
112 --cluster=""
115 The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
116 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json"
119 location of the container hints file
120 --containerd="unix:///var/run/containerd.sock"
123 containerd endpoint
124 --context=""
127 The name of the kubeconfig context to use
128 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300
131 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for
132 notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
133 already have such a toleration.
134 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300
137 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreach‐
138 able:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
139 already have such a toleration.
140 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
143 docker endpoint
144 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist=""
147 a comma-separated list of environment variable keys that needs to
148 be collected for docker containers
149 --docker-only=false
152 Only report docker containers in addition to root stats
153 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker"
156 DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a fall‐
157 back, default: /var/lib/docker)
158 --docker-tls=false
161 use TLS to connect to docker
162 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem"
165 path to trusted CA
166 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem"
169 path to client certificate
170 --docker-tls-key="key.pem"
173 path to private key
174 --enable-load-reader=false
177 Whether to enable cpu load reader
178 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0"
181 Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a
182 comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types
183 (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default
184 is applied to all non-specified event types
185 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0"
188 Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma sepa‐
189 rated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: cre‐
190 ation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is
191 applied to all non-specified event types
192 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s
195 Interval between global housekeepings
196 --google-json-key=""
199 The Google Cloud Platform Service Account JSON Key to use for
200 authentication.
201 --housekeeping-interval=10s
204 Interval between container housekeepings
205 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
208 If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity.
209 This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
210 --kubeconfig=""
213 Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
214 --log-backtrace-at=:0
217 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
218 --log-cadvisor-usage=false
221 Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container
222 --log-dir=""
225 If non-empty, write log files in this directory
226 --log-flush-frequency=5s
229 Maximum number of seconds between log flushes
230 --logtostderr=true
233 log to standard error instead of files
234 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
237 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
238 first one that exists.
239 --match-server-version=false
242 Require server version to match client version
243 --mesos-agent="127.0.0.1:5051"
246 Mesos agent address
247 --mesos-agent-timeout=10s
250 Mesos agent timeout
251 -n, --namespace=""
254 If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
255 --request-timeout="0"
258 The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server
259 request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g.
260 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
261 -s, --server=""
264 The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
265 --stderrthreshold=2
268 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
269 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s
272 Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration,
273 and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction
274 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor"
277 database name
278 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086"
281 database host:port
282 --storage-driver-password="root"
285 database password
286 --storage-driver-secure=false
289 use secure connection with database
290 --storage-driver-table="stats"
293 table name
294 --storage-driver-user="root"
297 database username
298 --token=""
301 Bearer token for authentication to the API server
302 --user=""
305 The name of the kubeconfig user to use
306 -v, --v=0
309 log level for V logs
310 --version=false
313 Print version information and quit
314 --vmodule=
317 comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered log‐
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323 # Show metrics for all pods in the default namespace
324 kubectl top pod
325 # Show metrics for all pods in the given namespace
327 kubectl top pod --namespace=NAMESPACE
328 # Show metrics for a given pod and its containers
330 kubectl top pod POD_NAME --containers
331 # Show metrics for the pods defined by label name=myLabel
333 kubectl top pod -l name=myLabel
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339 kubectl-top(1),
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344 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
345 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
346 been automatically generated since!
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