Overview
Octant is a local, developer-focused visual console for Kubernetes. By reading your kubeconfig, it presents cluster resources, object relationships, and runtime information in a local Web UI.
Key features
- Resource browser: hierarchical view of
Pods,Deployments,Services,ConfigMaps, and custom resources (CRD). - Object inspector: shows full YAML, events, conditions, and related resources to help quickly pinpoint issues.
- Relationship view: visualizes dependencies and topology to understand how objects interact.
- Plugin extensibility: supports plugins to extend views and add custom dashboards to meet platform needs.
- Integration with
kubectl: runs locally with no cluster-side components required—secure and lightweight.
Use cases and target users
- Developers debugging and troubleshooting Kubernetes resources locally
- Platform engineers and SREs performing incident investigation and dependency analysis
- Teams needing to develop or integrate custom views
Advantages
- Starts locally with no cluster agent required, secure and fast;
- Developer-oriented visual experience, reduces command-line round trips;
- Strong plugin capabilities, easy to extend enterprise views and integrate monitoring