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A cluster's overview in KubeStacks: nodes, pods and workloads, CPU and memory with their last hour, and what needs attention.A cluster's overview in KubeStacks: nodes, pods and workloads, CPU and memory with their last hour, and what needs attention.
Most Kubernetes tools are either a terminal or a wall of tables. KubeStacks surfaces problems first, shows live usage next to what’s allocatable, and gets out of your way. When something needs a hand (a scale, a restart, a rollback, a drain) it’s a click or a keystroke away, with guard rails.

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Two ways to run it

It’s the same app either way. Pick the one that fits, or use both.

On your desktop

A native app for macOS, Windows and Linux. It reads your kubeconfig, like kubectl, and opens any cluster in it.

In your cluster

One Helm chart serves KubeStacks as a web dashboard. Your team opens a link, signs in, and sees what their own RBAC allows.
Joining a team that already runs KubeStacks? You don’t need to install anything. See Signing in.

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What it does

Health first

Every object gets a clear status, and problems sort to the top.

Usage next to capacity

Live CPU and memory against requests, limits and allocatable.

Safe changes

Scale, restart, roll back or drain, with the kubectl shown and undo.

Logs, merged

Every pod of a workload in one stream, in the order lines were written.

Shells and debugging

A shell in any container, or a debug container in pods that have none.

Usage history

Charts from your Prometheus or VictoriaMetrics, found for you.

Helm releases

Values, revisions and diffs, read in place. Upgrade with a dry run first.

Custom resources

Every kind the cluster serves, with views for popular projects.

Keyboard first

⌘K goes anywhere. Every view has a shortcut.

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Made for the day something breaks

Lists sort by health, so you won’t scroll past 400 healthy pods to find the one that isn’t. The overview lists what needs attention and the latest warnings. Statuses always come with an icon and a label, never color alone. How health works.
Every change names the cluster and shows the equivalent kubectl command. YAML edits are checked by the cluster with a dry run and shown as a diff before they’re saved. Changing things safely.
KubeStacks asks the cluster what you’re allowed to do before offering it. Risky deletes, and anything in a cluster named like production, ask you to type the name first. Read-only mode turns changes off entirely.
A lost connection shows a banner and keeps the last data on screen, instead of a blank window. Every error says what happened and what to try. Troubleshooting.
Lists load in chunks of 500 and are paginated and virtualized, so thousands of pods stay smooth. A label selector narrows a list on the server.

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Requirements

Kubernetes1.25 or later
kubectlNot needed
HelmOnly to change releases
DesktopmacOS 12, Windows 10, 64-bit Linux
Live usage needs metrics-server, and usage history needs a Prometheus or VictoriaMetrics in the cluster. Without them, everything else works, and KubeStacks shows requests and limits against capacity instead.

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Free and open source

KubeStacks is free under the Apache 2.0 license, with no telemetry and no accounts. It talks to your clusters and nothing else, apart from the few things you ask for, listed in Privacy and security.

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