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Manu
Manu

Reputation: 354

Show more logs in kubernetes dashboard

I am using the official kubernetes dashboard in Version kubernetesui/dashboard:v2.4.0 to manage my cluster and I've noticed that, when I select a pod and look into the logs, the length of the displayed logs is quite short. It's like 50 lines or something?

If an exception occurs, the logs are pretty much useless because the original cause is hidden by lots of other lines. I would have to download the logs or shell to the kubernetes server and use kubectl logs in order to see whats going on.

Is there any way to configure the dashboard in a way so that more lines of logs get displayed?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5583

Answers (2)

Manu
Manu

Reputation: 354

If anyone is interested: As the feature that i was looking for does not exist yet, i have submitted a feature request in GitHub. You can see it here: https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/issues/6700

Upvotes: 0

Piotr Malec
Piotr Malec

Reputation: 3647

AFAIK, it is not possible with kubernetesui/dashboard:v2.4.0. On the list of dashboard arguments that allow for customization, there is no option to change the amount of logs displayed.

As a workaround you can use Prometheus + Grafana combination or ELK kibana as separate dashboards with logs/metrics, however depending on the size and scope of your k8s cluster it might be overkill. There are also alternative k8s opensource dashboards such as skooner (formerly known as k8dash), however I am not sure if it offers more workload logs visibility.

Upvotes: 1

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