How do I get logs from all pods of a Kubernetes replication controller?

logging kubernetes google-kubernetes-engine
Torsten Bronger picture Torsten Bronger · Oct 11, 2015 · Viewed 97.1k times · Source

Running kubectl logs shows me the stderr/stdout of one Kubernetes container.

How can I get the aggregated stderr/stdout of a set of pods, preferably those created by a certain replication controller?

Answer

Adrian Ng picture Adrian Ng · Jun 9, 2017

You can use labels

kubectl logs -l app=elasticsearch

Related questions

Where are Kubernetes' pods logfiles?

When I run $ kubectl logs <container> I get the logs of my pods. But where are the files for those logs? Some sources says /var/log/containers/ others says /var/lib/docker/containers/ but I couldn't find my …

Read More
grep a file, but show several surrounding lines?

I would like to grep for a string, but also show the preceding five lines and the following five lines as well as the matched line. How would I be able to do this?

Read More
String formatting: % vs. .format vs. string literal

Python 2.6 introduced the str.format() method with a slightly different syntax from the existing % operator. Which is better and for what situations? Python 3.6 has now introduced another string formatting format of string literals (aka "f" strings) via the syntax f"…

Read More