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stern — Tail multiple pods and containers from Kubernetes. More information: <https://github.com/stern/stern

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Problem

How to use the stern command: Tail multiple pods and containers from Kubernetes. More information: <https://github.com/stern/stern#usage>.

Solution

stern — Tail multiple pods and containers from Kubernetes. More information: <https://github.com/stern/stern#usage>.

Tail all pods within a current namespace:

stern .

Tail all pods with a specific status:

stern . --container-state {{running|waiting|terminated}}

Tail all pods that matches a given regex:

stern {{pod_query}}

Tail matched pods from all namespaces:

stern {{pod_query}} {{[-A|--all-namespaces]}}

Tail matched pods from 15 minutes ago:

stern {{pod_query}} {{[-s|--since]}} 15m

Tail matched pods with a specific label:

stern {{pod_query}} {{[-l|--selector]}} {{release=canary}}

Code Snippets

Tail all pods within a current namespace

stern .

Tail all pods with a specific status

stern . --container-state {{running|waiting|terminated}}

Tail all pods that matches a given `regex`

stern {{pod_query}}

Tail matched pods from all namespaces

stern {{pod_query}} {{[-A|--all-namespaces]}}

Tail matched pods from 15 minutes ago

stern {{pod_query}} {{[-s|--since]}} 15m

Context

tldr-pages: common/stern

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