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Comment by ai-christianson | Hacker News Reader

This looks awesome --do you cache or store the logs, or is that left up to k8s?

Thanks! Kubetail doesn't cache or store logs itself. By default, it uses the Kubernetes API to fetch logs from your cluster and send them directly to your client (browser or terminal). If the "Kubetail Cluster API" is installed then it uses Kubetail's custom agent to do the same.

Presumably I can install this (the web frontend) into k8s itself. Is there a helm chart or kustomize?

Would be really cool to install it into k8s and just hit a hosted web endpoint with all the logs and grep/exploration capabilities kubetail has.

Yep! You can use Kubetail on your desktop (using the CLI tool) or you can install it directly in your cluster using helm:

    helm repo add kubetail https://kubetail-org.github.io/helm-charts/
    helm install kubetail kubetail/kubetail --namespace kubetail-system --create-namespace

Then you can access it using `kubectl proxy` or `kubectl port-forward`:

    kubectl port-forward -n kubetail-system svc/kubetail-dashboard 8080:8080

You can also configure an ingress using the values.yaml file (https://github.com/kubetail-org/helm-charts/blob/main/charts...)

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