Debug K9s: troubleshooting commands

K9s 0.51 6 commands

6 commands in 2 groups: Diagnose K9s, K9s Logs. Click or tap any command to copy it. Official documentation: k9scli.io.

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Diagnose K9s

Print K9s runtime paths and version, or enable debug logging to identify startup and connection issues.

k9s --logLevel debug

Start K9s with debug logging enabled

k9s info

Print config, log, screen dump, skins, plugins and aliases paths

Tail the K9s log file to inspect errors, panics, and connection traces. The path depends on your OS, run k9s info for the exact one.

tail -f "$HOME/Library/Application Support/k9s/k9s.log"

Follow K9s log on macOS

tail -f ~/.local/state/k9s/k9s.log

Follow K9s log on Linux

grep -i error "$HOME/Library/Application Support/k9s/k9s.log"

Filter error lines from K9s log on macOS

grep -i error ~/.local/state/k9s/k9s.log

Filter error lines from K9s log on Linux