Insights, not just metadata

Kubecat is your incident-first Kubernetes desktop app. Beta

Explore resources, stream logs, analyze problems, and understand “what changed” with timelines and snapshots — in a fast, native desktop GUI.

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Native performance Local-first Keyboard-driven

Downloads the latest macOS release from GitHub.

Why Kubecat

Kubernetes isn’t hard because of commands — it’s hard because context is fragmented. Kubecat pulls the signals you need into one place.

Debug faster

Timeline + snapshots help you answer “what changed?” quickly during incidents.

See the whole cluster

Explore resources with rich metadata, filters, and quick actions.

Stay local-first

Runs on your machine. Your kubeconfig stays yours. No required SaaS hop.

AI you can trust in the middle of an incident.

Built for skeptical operators: Kubecat’s AI helps you ask better questions and get faster answers — and links every claim back to the evidence in your cluster.

Ask & query (“why is this pod restarting?”, “what changed before 5xx?”, “which workload owns this?”)
Analyze workloads (probes, conditions, resource pressure, dependency errors, rollout state)
Correlate change across events, diffs, snapshots, and related resources
Summarize incidents from logs + events into a briefable narrative
Highlight risks in pod specs and surprising permissions (with links to YAML/RBAC)

No “trust me” answers — just fast navigation through events, logs, YAML, and diffs.

Ask questions like

Events Logs YAML Snapshots Diffs

Why is pod kubecat-api-7b9c… restarting?
What changed in the 10 minutes before 5xx started?
Show me the rollout + config diffs related to this Service.
Which workloads are affected if Redis is unhealthy?
Summarize the last 200 events for this namespace.

Features

A desktop GUI for Kubernetes that goes beyond “kubectl, but with buttons”.

Resource Explorer

Browse common resources with powerful filtering, rich columns, and YAML access.

Real-time Logs

Stream pod/container logs with search and multi-pod aggregation where it matters.

Timeline & Events

Incident-friendly event history, snapshots, and diffs to understand changes.

Cluster Analyzer

Scan for issues across health, ownership, and security, with clear severity.

GitOps Dashboard

Visibility into Flux and ArgoCD resources with status, health, and sync signals.

Security & RBAC

Understand permissions, dangerous access, and risky pod specs at a glance.

How it works

Kubernetes isn’t hard because of commands — it’s hard because context is fragmented. Kubecat pulls the signals you need into one place.

Connect

Use your existing kubeconfig and contexts. Kubecat speaks Kubernetes natively.
Explore

Navigate resources, stream logs, run quick actions, and keep focus with shortcuts.
Understand change

Use timeline + snapshots to correlate events and diffs during incidents.

Screenshots

Kubecat Analyzer view showing critical issues and warnings — Analyzer: critical issues, warnings, and fixes

Kubecat Timeline view showing recent cluster events — Timeline, events, snapshots, diffs

Download Kubecat (macOS)

Get the latest release from GitHub.

Download macOS (.dmg) View release notes

Install with Homebrew

brew tap thepixelabs/kubecat
brew install kubecat

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Cannot open Kubecat?
Go to System Settings > Privacy & Security and click "Open Anyway".

What you get

Native Desktop Experience
Resource explorer + YAML access
Real-time logs
Timeline + snapshots
Analyzer + security/RBAC views