Dashboard & Resources

Real-time updates

Everything goes through Kubernetes watch streams over WebSockets. Resources show up, change, and disappear without hitting refresh. CRDs are picked up automatically - install a new operator and its resources appear within seconds.

Resource Explorer

The Resource Explorer does full CRUD on any resource type:

• List/filter - Search across all resource types with instant filtering by namespace, label, status
• YAML editor - Monaco editor with syntax highlighting, schema validation, and one-click apply
• Xray view - Traces ownership chains (Pod → ReplicaSet → Deployment) in both directions
• Events - Resource-scoped events with real-time streaming
• Logs - Container log tailing with search, filtering, and download

Command palette

Press ⌘K (or Ctrl+K) to open the command palette. Search across resources, namespaces, and pages. k9s-style colon commands work too:

Command	Action
:pod	Jump to Pods
:deploy	Jump to Deployments
:svc	Jump to Services
:ns	Switch namespace
:ctx	Switch cluster context
:q	Close current panel

Custom dashboards

Build monitoring dashboards with draggable widgets. Widgets connect to Prometheus metrics or Kubernetes resource counts and update in real-time.

Resource actions

Right-click any resource for context-appropriate actions:

• Scale - Adjust replica count for Deployments, StatefulSets, ReplicaSets
• Restart - Rolling restart via annotation patch
• Delete - With propagation policy selection (Foreground, Background, Orphan)
• Edit - Open in YAML editor with validation
• Exec - Open a terminal session into the pod
• Logs - Stream container logs
• Port forward - Create a local port forwarding session

Related

Terminal & Exec Multi-session terminal with split panes and broadcast

Keyboard Shortcuts Command palette and resource action shortcuts

Architecture Overview How real-time WebSocket updates work