Cluster assessment
Ranked findings instead of a pod list: crash loops, OOM kills, pods that will never schedule, sizing problems — each with what to do about it.
Features
What PodSteer does.
PodSteer is a free, open-source desktop client for Kubernetes that assesses a cluster instead of listing it. Every capability below is in the one Apache-2.0 application — there is no paid tier of the client and nothing to sign in to.
Topology and traffic
One namespace, several or all of them as one map — every line a relationship Kubernetes has — with observed traffic from Istio, Linkerd, Beyla, Caretta or Hubble.
Day-2 operations
Apply any kind including CRDs, roll back, drain, bulk-act with a review step — and see the kubectl command for each.
New in v0.3.0
GitOps: Argo CD and Flux
Typed panels for Argo CD Applications and Flux Kustomizations and HelmReleases, and a warning before any change a controller will undo.
New in v0.3.0
Helm releases
Every Helm release and revision, listed from labels alone; one revision's values and manifest read only when you ask.
New in v0.3.0
Security and RBAC
Privileges a spec takes, vulnerabilities your scanner already found, and what an account can actually do — answered by the API server.
New in v0.3.0
MCP server and coding agents
podsteer mcp: nineteen read-only tools for Claude Code and other agents, over stdio — no port, no writes, Secret values masked.
New in v0.3.0
Shells and terminals
Exec, debug containers, node shells, an in-cluster shell and your own local terminal — with the pods PodSteer creates cleaned up after.
New in v0.3.0
Multi-cluster
Real tabs, one cluster each; one table across every open cluster; clusters found through your own cloud CLI.
Operator panels
Built-in views for cert-manager, KEDA, External Secrets, Argo Rollouts, Trivy, Karpenter, Gateway API and more — no plugin API, nothing to install.
New in v0.3.0
Also in the box
The things you notice on the second day.
- A command palette that searches kinds, objects and open clusters without firing a request per keystroke.
- Custom columns from any label, annotation or JSONPath expression, saved per kind.
- Saved views, favourites and recents, and keyboard shortcuts you can rebind.
- Logs that stream every container at once, parse JSON and logfmt, fold stack traces and filter by regular expression.
- A dependency map for any object, drawn only from relationships Kubernetes really has.
- Opt-in charts from a Prometheus or VictoriaMetrics already running in the cluster.
- Light, dark or follow the system — and settings you can export and hand to a colleague.