K8Lens
—  FEATURES

One dashboard.
The whole API surface.

K8Lens speaks Kubernetes natively every built-in resource, every custom resource, every namespace. Read-only today, mutating actions on the v0.6 roadmap.

RESOURCES SUPPORTED
62
CONTAINER SIZE
80 MB
MEMORY AT IDLE
< 60 MB
COLD START
~ 800 ms
MULTI-CLUSTER
Yes
Workloads
6 items
Pods status, restarts, CPU/memory, logs, per-container breakdown
Deployments replica bar, rollout history, blast radius, cost estimate
StatefulSets ordered pod readiness, PVC binding, pod spread analysis
DaemonSets per-node placement, desired vs ready vs available
Jobs & CronJobs completions, duration, run history, concurrency policy
ReplicaSets & RCs owner chains, managed pods, container template
Configuration
6 items
ConfigMaps key/value viewer, change history, revision diff
Secrets masked values, base64 reveal, change history
HPAs current vs target metrics, conditions, replica scale
ResourceQuotas hard limits vs used, per-namespace breakdown
LimitRanges container, pod & PVC resource constraints
CRDs schema fields, versions, printer columns, conditions
Networking
6 items
Services type, cluster/external IP, ports, blast radius
Ingresses TLS cert expiry with color-coded badges, routing rules
NetworkPolicies ingress & egress rules, ports, protocol, pod selector
Endpoints ready endpoint count, IP:port listing
IngressClasses controller, default class status
Dependency graph visual map of service-to-pod relationships
Storage
6 items
PVCs bound state, storage request, access modes, mounted pods
PVs capacity, access modes, reclaim policy, node affinity
StorageClasses provisioner, binding mode, expandable, default flag
VolumeAttachments node attach state, attacher driver
CSI drivers installed node & controller plugins
Snapshots & restore VolumeSnapshot classes and snapshot contents
Access Control
6 items
ServiceAccounts secrets, image pull secrets, bound pods
Roles & ClusterRoles policy rules, verbs, API groups, aggregation
RoleBindings bound subjects users, groups, service accounts
ClusterRoleBindings cluster-wide subjects and referenced role
Permission matrix visual RBAC inspector across bound roles
PSA labels restricted, baseline, privileged enforcement per namespace
Cluster & Operations
6 items
Nodes capacity, conditions, taints, blast radius if drained
Namespaces stat-card grid counting every resource type
Events unified timeline, type/reason/object filter
Helm releases chart & app version, managed resources, values viewer
Logs streaming, text search, time-range filter, container selector
Multi-cluster kubeconfig context switching without leaving the UI
—  COMPARED

How K8Lens stacks up

CAPABILITYK8Lensk8s dashboardProm + GrafanaHosted SaaS
Install steps1412+
Memory footprint60 MB120 MB2+ GBn/a
Required Helm charts014+0
Real-time pod logsyeslimitednoyes
Custom resourcesfirst-classlimitednoyes
Self-hostedyesyesyesno
Monthly cost$0$0$0 + ops$$$