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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 --alsologtostderr=false
30 log to standard error as well as files
31 --application-metrics-count-limit=100
34 Max number of application metrics to store (per container)
35 --as=""
38 Username to impersonate for the operation
39 --as-group=[]
42 Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated
43 to specify multiple groups.
44 --azure-container-registry-config=""
47 Path to the file containing Azure container registry configuration
48 information.
49 --boot-id-file="/proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id"
52 Comma-separated list of files to check for boot-id. Use the first
53 one that exists.
54 --cache-dir="/builddir/.kube/http-cache"
57 Default HTTP cache directory
58 --certificate-authority=""
61 Path to a cert file for the certificate authority
62 --client-certificate=""
65 Path to a client certificate file for TLS
66 --client-key=""
69 Path to a client key file for TLS
70 --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
73 CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for LB traffic proxy health checks
74 --cluster=""
77 The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use
78 --container-hints="/etc/cadvisor/container_hints.json"
81 location of the container hints file
82 --containerd="unix:///var/run/containerd.sock"
85 containerd endpoint
86 --context=""
89 The name of the kubeconfig context to use
90 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300
93 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for
94 notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
95 already have such a toleration.
96 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300
99 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreach‐
100 able:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
101 already have such a toleration.
102 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
105 docker endpoint
106 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist=""
109 a comma-separated list of environment variable keys that needs to
110 be collected for docker containers
111 --docker-only=false
114 Only report docker containers in addition to root stats
115 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker"
118 DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a fall‐
119 back, default: /var/lib/docker)
120 --docker-tls=false
123 use TLS to connect to docker
124 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem"
127 path to trusted CA
128 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem"
131 path to client certificate
132 --docker-tls-key="key.pem"
135 path to private key
136 --enable-load-reader=false
139 Whether to enable cpu load reader
140 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0"
143 Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a
144 comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types
145 (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default
146 is applied to all non-specified event types
147 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0"
150 Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma sepa‐
151 rated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: cre‐
152 ation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is
153 applied to all non-specified event types
154 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s
157 Interval between global housekeepings
158 --housekeeping-interval=10s
161 Interval between container housekeepings
162 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
165 If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity.
166 This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
167 --kubeconfig=""
170 Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
171 --log-backtrace-at=:0
174 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
175 --log-cadvisor-usage=false
178 Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container
179 --log-dir=""
182 If non-empty, write log files in this directory
183 --log-file=""
186 If non-empty, use this log file
187 --log-flush-frequency=5s
190 Maximum number of seconds between log flushes
191 --logtostderr=true
194 log to standard error instead of files
195 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
198 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
199 first one that exists.
200 --match-server-version=false
203 Require server version to match client version
204 --mesos-agent="127.0.0.1:5051"
207 Mesos agent address
208 --mesos-agent-timeout=10s
211 Mesos agent timeout
212 -n, --namespace=""
215 If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
216 --password=""
219 Password for basic authentication to the API server
220 --profile="none"
223 Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|thread‐
224 create|block|mutex)
225 --profile-output="profile.pprof"
228 Name of the file to write the profile to
229 --request-timeout="0"
232 The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server
233 request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g.
234 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
235 -s, --server=""
238 The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
239 --skip-headers=false
242 If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages
243 --stderrthreshold=2
246 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
247 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s
250 Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration,
251 and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction
252 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor"
255 database name
256 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086"
259 database host:port
260 --storage-driver-password="root"
263 database password
264 --storage-driver-secure=false
267 use secure connection with database
268 --storage-driver-table="stats"
271 table name
272 --storage-driver-user="root"
275 database username
276 --token=""
279 Bearer token for authentication to the API server
280 --user=""
283 The name of the kubeconfig user to use
284 --username=""
287 Username for basic authentication to the API server
288 -v, --v=0
291 log level for V logs
292 --version=false
295 Print version information and quit
296 --vmodule=
299 comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered log‐
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305 kubectl(1), kubectl-top-node(1), kubectl-top-pod(1),
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310 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
311 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
312 been automatically generated since!
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