Navigating Operator

Operator mode is for operating your Kubernetes clusters and cloud native infrastructure.

Discover and examine your Kubernetes clusters and cloud native infrastructure using Operator mode.

Operator empty state when no Kubernetes context is selected
Operator with no Kubernetes context selected β€” choose one or more clusters to populate the topology (anonymous capture, Sep 2026).

Use filters to select the Kubernetes resources you want to view. Apply one or more filters β€” for example by namespace, kind, model, or label β€” to narrow the topology to the resources that matter. Combine filters to focus on a subset of your cluster without leaving Operator.

Operator Filter Resources menu listing search, namespaces, kinds, models, and labels
Filter Resources in Operator: search, namespaces, kinds, models, and labels. Captured without a cluster context selected (anonymous, Sep 2026).

Using the search bar, you can search for specific resources and select them. The selected resources are highlighted in the Operator canvas. Details of the selected resources are displayed in the right panel.

Operator supports connecting to Kubernetes pods via the following methods.

  • Log Streaming: Learn how to live-tail logs from your Kubernetes pods and containers directly within the visual topology.
  • Interactive Terminal: Learn how to establish an interactive shell session with your containers.
  • Views: Save, open, share and export named perspectives of your clusters.
  • Instance Details: Inspect the live state, metrics and events of any discovered resource.
  • Performance Testing: Generate load against a Service or Ingress using a saved performance profile.

Instance Details

Learn about Instance Details in Operator mode

Views in Operator

Learn about Views in Operator mode

Performance Testing in Operator

Measure the behavior of a running service from the Operator canvas, using saved performance profiles.

Interactive Terminal

Learn about Interactive Terminal in Operator mode

Log Streaming

Learn about Log Streaming in Operator mode

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