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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="/run/containerd/containerd.sock"
85 containerd endpoint
86 --containerd-namespace="k8s.io"
89 containerd namespace
90 --context=""
93 The name of the kubeconfig context to use
94 --default-not-ready-toleration-seconds=300
97 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for
98 notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
99 already have such a toleration.
100 --default-unreachable-toleration-seconds=300
103 Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreach‐
104 able:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not
105 already have such a toleration.
106 --docker="unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
109 docker endpoint
110 --docker-env-metadata-whitelist=""
113 a comma-separated list of environment variable keys that needs to
114 be collected for docker containers
115 --docker-only=false
118 Only report docker containers in addition to root stats
119 --docker-root="/var/lib/docker"
122 DEPRECATED: docker root is read from docker info (this is a fall‐
123 back, default: /var/lib/docker)
124 --docker-tls=false
127 use TLS to connect to docker
128 --docker-tls-ca="ca.pem"
131 path to trusted CA
132 --docker-tls-cert="cert.pem"
135 path to client certificate
136 --docker-tls-key="key.pem"
139 path to private key
140 --enable-load-reader=false
143 Whether to enable cpu load reader
144 --event-storage-age-limit="default=0"
147 Max length of time for which to store events (per type). Value is a
148 comma separated list of key values, where the keys are event types
149 (e.g.: creation, oom) or "default" and the value is a duration. Default
150 is applied to all non-specified event types
151 --event-storage-event-limit="default=0"
154 Max number of events to store (per type). Value is a comma sepa‐
155 rated list of key values, where the keys are event types (e.g.: cre‐
156 ation, oom) or "default" and the value is an integer. Default is
157 applied to all non-specified event types
158 --global-housekeeping-interval=1m0s
161 Interval between global housekeepings
162 --housekeeping-interval=10s
165 Interval between container housekeepings
166 --insecure-skip-tls-verify=false
169 If true, the server's certificate will not be checked for validity.
170 This will make your HTTPS connections insecure
171 --kubeconfig=""
174 Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.
175 --log-backtrace-at=:0
178 when logging hits line file:N, emit a stack trace
179 --log-cadvisor-usage=false
182 Whether to log the usage of the cAdvisor container
183 --log-dir=""
186 If non-empty, write log files in this directory
187 --log-file=""
190 If non-empty, use this log file
191 --log-file-max-size=1800
194 Defines the maximum size a log file can grow to. Unit is megabytes.
195 If the value is 0, the maximum file size is unlimited.
196 --log-flush-frequency=5s
199 Maximum number of seconds between log flushes
200 --logtostderr=true
203 log to standard error instead of files
204 --machine-id-file="/etc/machine-id,/var/lib/dbus/machine-id"
207 Comma-separated list of files to check for machine-id. Use the
208 first one that exists.
209 --match-server-version=false
212 Require server version to match client version
213 -n, --namespace=""
216 If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request
217 --password=""
220 Password for basic authentication to the API server
221 --profile="none"
224 Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|thread‐
225 create|block|mutex)
226 --profile-output="profile.pprof"
229 Name of the file to write the profile to
230 --request-timeout="0"
233 The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server
234 request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g.
235 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don't timeout requests.
236 -s, --server=""
239 The address and port of the Kubernetes API server
240 --skip-headers=false
243 If true, avoid header prefixes in the log messages
244 --skip-log-headers=false
247 If true, avoid headers when opening log files
248 --stderrthreshold=2
251 logs at or above this threshold go to stderr
252 --storage-driver-buffer-duration=1m0s
255 Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration,
256 and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction
257 --storage-driver-db="cadvisor"
260 database name
261 --storage-driver-host="localhost:8086"
264 database host:port
265 --storage-driver-password="root"
268 database password
269 --storage-driver-secure=false
272 use secure connection with database
273 --storage-driver-table="stats"
276 table name
277 --storage-driver-user="root"
280 database username
281 --token=""
284 Bearer token for authentication to the API server
285 --update-machine-info-interval=5m0s
288 Interval between machine info updates.
289 --user=""
292 The name of the kubeconfig user to use
293 --username=""
296 Username for basic authentication to the API server
297 -v, --v=0
300 number for the log level verbosity
301 --version=false
304 Print version information and quit
305 --vmodule=
308 comma-separated list of pattern=N settings for file-filtered log‐
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314 kubectl(1), kubectl-top-node(1), kubectl-top-pod(1),
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319 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
320 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
321 been automatically generated since!
322Eric Paris kubernetes User Manuals KUBERNETES(1)