Kube Inspector

No phone app

6.3No. 6 of 23
in Local Kubernetes Tools
  • Recognised40% of the score20
  • Phone app26% of the score0
  • Documented20% of the score86
  • Free plan14% of the score100
Free plan
Yes
Runs on
Linux, Mac, Windows

Summary

Kube Inspector is ranked #6 of 23 in local Kubernetes tools on Samsung Mobile US Press. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows. There is a free plan.

Kube Inspector plans and pricing

All plans
Free Free Free and open source · no paid tier, account, or sign-in kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026

Compared on local Kubernetes tools

Free plan
Yeskubeinspector.com
Supported operating systems
Windows 10/11, macOS 11+ on Apple Silicon, Ubuntu/Debian, Fedora/RHEL-compatible Linuxkubeinspector.com
Graphical interface
Yeskubeinspector.com
Kubernetes version control
Anything supported by the bundled client-go; in practice, currently supported Kubernetes releaseskubeinspector.com

Facts

What it does
Kube Inspector is a visual desktop client for viewing and managing Kubernetes clusters.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026
Resource management
It supports inspecting and managing workloads including Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, Jobs, and CronJobs.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026
YAML editor
The app includes a Monaco YAML editor with schema validation for viewing and applying changes.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026
Monitoring
It displays CPU and memory usage for clusters, nodes, pods, and workloads over time; these readings require metrics-server in the cluster.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026
Security features
It includes an interactive RBAC graph and Trivy image vulnerability scanning.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026
Cluster compatibility
It reads existing kubeconfig files and supports conformant local and managed Kubernetes clusters, including kind, minikube, k3s, EKS, GKE, and AKS.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026
Multi-cluster
Users can add multiple clusters, and each open panel stays pinned to the cluster it was opened with.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026
CLI
A separately packaged terminal UI, kube-inspector-cli, provides the same features and is intended for terminal and SSH use.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026
Privacy
The app states that it has no telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, or usage statistics; cluster data travels between the user's machine and the cluster API server.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026
Local AI integration
The optional AI assistant uses Ollama, with prompts and tool results sent to the configured Ollama host rather than a cloud provider by default.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026
Support
There is no support desk; the project directs users to its issue tracker and does not guarantee response times.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026
Notable limitations
macOS builds are Apple Silicon only, and builds are not code-signed.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026
Scanning limits
Vulnerability scanning needs network access to download Trivy's database on first use, does not scan images in private registries, and does not scan cluster misconfiguration.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026
Release maturity
The support page describes the release as beta and says bugs are expected.kubeinspector.com · 3 Oct 2026

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