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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 Heapster to be correctly configured and working
24 on the server.
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29 --allow-verification-with-non-compliant-keys=false
30 Allow a SignatureVerifier to use keys which are technically
31 non-compliant with RFC6962.
32 --alsologtostderr=false
35 log to standard error as well as files
36 --application-metrics-count-limit=100
39 Max number of application metrics to store (per container)
40 --as=""
43 Username to impersonate for the operation
44 --as-group=[]
47 Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated
48 to specify multiple groups.
49 --azure-container-registry-config=""
52 Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration
53 information.
54 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id"
57 Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first
58 one that exists.
59 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/http-cache"
62 Default HTTP cache directory
63 --certificate-authority=""
66 Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
67 --client-certificate=""
70 Path to a client certificate file for TLS
71 --client-key=""
74 Path to a client key file for TLS
75 --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
78 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for LB traffic proxy health checks
79 --cluster=""
82 The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
83 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json"
86 location of the container hints file
87 --containerd="unix:///var/run/containerd.sock"
90 containerd endpoint
91 --context=""
94 The name of the kubeconfig context to use
95 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300
98 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for
99 notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
100 already have such a toleration.
101 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300
104 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreach‐
105 able:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
106 already have such a toleration.
107 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
110 docker endpoint
111 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist=""
114 a comma-separated list of environment variable keys that needs to
115 be collected for docker containers
116 --docker-only=false
119 Only report docker containers in addition to root stats
120 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker"
123 DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a fall‐
124 back, default: /var/lib/docker)
125 --docker-tls=false
128 use TLS to connect to docker
129 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem"
132 path to trusted CA
133 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem"
136 path to client certificate
137 --docker-tls-key="key.pem"
140 path to private key
141 --enable-load-reader=false
144 Whether to enable cpu load reader
145 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0"
148 Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a
149 comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types
150 (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default
151 is applied to all non-specified event types
152 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0"
155 Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma sepa‐
156 rated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: cre‐
157 ation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is
158 applied to all non-specified event types
159 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s
162 Interval between global housekeepings
163 --google-json-key=""
166 The Google Cloud Platform Service Account JSON Key to use for
167 authentication.
168 --housekeeping-interval=10s
171 Interval between container housekeepings
172 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
175 If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity.
176 This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
177 --kubeconfig=""
180 Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
181 --log-backtrace-at=:0
184 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
185 --log-cadvisor-usage=false
188 Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container
189 --log-dir=""
192 If non-empty, write log files in this directory
193 --log-flush-frequency=5s
196 Maximum number of seconds between log flushes
197 --logtostderr=true
200 log to standard error instead of files
201 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
204 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
205 first one that exists.
206 --match-server-version=false
209 Require server version to match client version
210 --mesos-agent="127.0.0.1:5051"
213 Mesos agent address
214 --mesos-agent-timeout=10s
217 Mesos agent timeout
218 -n, --namespace=""
221 If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
222 --request-timeout="0"
225 The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server
226 request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g.
227 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
228 -s, --server=""
231 The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
232 --stderrthreshold=2
235 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
236 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s
239 Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration,
240 and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction
241 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor"
244 database name
245 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086"
248 database host:port
249 --storage-driver-password="root"
252 database password
253 --storage-driver-secure=false
256 use secure connection with database
257 --storage-driver-table="stats"
260 table name
261 --storage-driver-user="root"
264 database username
265 --token=""
268 Bearer token for authentication to the API server
269 --user=""
272 The name of the kubeconfig user to use
273 -v, --v=0
276 log level for V logs
277 --version=false
280 Print version information and quit
281 --vmodule=
284 comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered log‐
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290 kubectl(1), kubectl-top-node(1), kubectl-top-pod(1),
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295 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
296 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
297 been automatically generated since!
298Eric Paris kubernetes User Manuals KUBERNETES(1)