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9 kubectl top pod - Display resource (CPU/memory) usage of pods
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14 kubectl top pod [OPTIONS]
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19 Display resource (CPU/memory) usage of pods.
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22 The 'top pod' command allows you to see the resource consumption of
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41 --field-selector="" Selector (field query) to filter on, supports
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165 kubectl top pod --namespace=NAMESPACE
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168 kubectl top pod POD_NAME --containers
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182 January 2015, Originally compiled by Eric Paris (eparis at redhat dot
183 com) based on the kubernetes source material, but hopefully they have
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