kubectl events

Synopsis

Display events.

Prints a table of the most important information about events. You can request events for a namespace, for all namespace, or filtered to only those pertaining to a specified resource.

  1. kubectl events [(-o|--output=)json|yaml|name|go-template|go-template-file|template|templatefile|jsonpath|jsonpath-as-json|jsonpath-file] [--for TYPE/NAME] [--watch] [--types=Normal,Warning]

Examples

  1. # List recent events in the default namespace
  2. kubectl events
  3. # List recent events in all namespaces
  4. kubectl events --all-namespaces
  5. # List recent events for the specified pod, then wait for more events and list them as they arrive
  6. kubectl events --for pod/web-pod-13je7 --watch
  7. # List recent events in YAML format
  8. kubectl events -oyaml
  9. # List recent only events of type 'Warning' or 'Normal'
  10. kubectl events --types=Warning,Normal

Options

-A, —all-namespaces

If present, list the requested object(s) across all namespaces. Namespace in current context is ignored even if specified with —namespace.

—allow-missing-template-keys     Default: true

If true, ignore any errors in templates when a field or map key is missing in the template. Only applies to golang and jsonpath output formats.

—chunk-size int     Default: 500

Return large lists in chunks rather than all at once. Pass 0 to disable. This flag is beta and may change in the future.

—for string

Filter events to only those pertaining to the specified resource.

-h, —help

help for events

—no-headers

When using the default output format, don’t print headers.

-o, —output string

Output format. One of: (json, yaml, name, go-template, go-template-file, template, templatefile, jsonpath, jsonpath-as-json, jsonpath-file).

—show-managed-fields

If true, keep the managedFields when printing objects in JSON or YAML format.

—template string

Template string or path to template file to use when -o=go-template, -o=go-template-file. The template format is golang templates [http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#pkg-overview].

—types strings

Output only events of given types.

-w, —watch

After listing the requested events, watch for more events.

—as string

Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace.

—as-group strings

Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.

—as-uid string

UID to impersonate for the operation.

—cache-dir string     Default: “$HOME/.kube/cache”

Default cache directory

—certificate-authority string

Path to a cert file for the certificate authority

—client-certificate string

Path to a client certificate file for TLS

—client-key string

Path to a client key file for TLS

—cloud-provider-gce-l7lb-src-cidrs cidrs     Default: 130.211.0.0/22,35.191.0.0/16

CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L7 LB traffic proxy & health checks

—cloud-provider-gce-lb-src-cidrs cidrs     Default: 130.211.0.0/22,209.85.152.0/22,209.85.204.0/22,35.191.0.0/16

CIDRs opened in GCE firewall for L4 LB traffic proxy & health checks

—cluster string

The name of the kubeconfig cluster to use

—context string

The name of the kubeconfig context to use

—default-not-ready-toleration-seconds int     Default: 300

Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for notReady:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.

—default-unreachable-toleration-seconds int     Default: 300

Indicates the tolerationSeconds of the toleration for unreachable:NoExecute that is added by default to every pod that does not already have such a toleration.

—disable-compression

If true, opt-out of response compression for all requests to the server

—insecure-skip-tls-verify

If true, the server’s certificate will not be checked for validity. This will make your HTTPS connections insecure

—kubeconfig string

Path to the kubeconfig file to use for CLI requests.

—match-server-version

Require server version to match client version

-n, —namespace string

If present, the namespace scope for this CLI request

—password string

Password for basic authentication to the API server

—profile string     Default: “none”

Name of profile to capture. One of (none|cpu|heap|goroutine|threadcreate|block|mutex)

—profile-output string     Default: “profile.pprof”

Name of the file to write the profile to

—request-timeout string     Default: “0”

The length of time to wait before giving up on a single server request. Non-zero values should contain a corresponding time unit (e.g. 1s, 2m, 3h). A value of zero means don’t timeout requests.

-s, —server string

The address and port of the Kubernetes API server

—storage-driver-buffer-duration duration     Default: 1m0s

Writes in the storage driver will be buffered for this duration, and committed to the non memory backends as a single transaction

—storage-driver-db string     Default: “cadvisor”

database name

—storage-driver-host string     Default: “localhost:8086”

database host:port

—storage-driver-password string     Default: “root”

database password

—storage-driver-secure

use secure connection with database

—storage-driver-table string     Default: “stats”

table name

—storage-driver-user string     Default: “root”

database username

—tls-server-name string

Server name to use for server certificate validation. If it is not provided, the hostname used to contact the server is used

—token string

Bearer token for authentication to the API server

—user string

The name of the kubeconfig user to use

—username string

Username for basic authentication to the API server

—version version[=true]

—version, —version=raw prints version information and quits; —version=vX.Y.Z… sets the reported version

—warnings-as-errors

Treat warnings received from the server as errors and exit with a non-zero exit code

See Also

  • kubectl - kubectl controls the Kubernetes cluster manager