Introduction

Kubetail is a logging dashboard for Kubernetes that lets you view multiple log streams simultaneously, in real-time.

Kubetail uses your cluster’s Kubernetes API to retrieve your log data in real-time and presents it to you in a user-friendly web UI that allows you to view multiple log streams simultaneously in one timeline. By viewing multiple streams in the same timeline, you can follow your application logs easily as user requests move from one ephemeral container to another across services. Under the hood, Kubetail also uses your Kubernetes API to monitor your workloads and detect when a new workload container gets created or an old one gets deleted.

You can run Kubetail on your desktop using the kubetail CLI tool or you can deploy it to your cluster and expose it with a service or an ingress so your cluster users can use it without installing the CLI tool.