I am in the middle of a k8s project, and tried out this tool briefly. I mostly love the UI! I guess I am newer to k8s, and am getting sick of typing all the same commands looking for pod descriptions, logs, and shell access. This tool is fantastic for debugging. I love being able to access pod shells instantly. I love seeing most of the k8s objects I have one click away! I have not yet tried out k9s, nor do I have prometheus installed in my cluster.

I have one feature request, and two gripes :)

Feature Request: Why is there not a big ol' search bar across the top so I can filter resources by label, or by resource name? I might hazard that caching resource names/labels across all object types, and letting users filter those would be a pretty fun feature.

Gripe One: I am on a flaky VPN connection into my cluster, and Lens wholesale drops the UI if the cluster is unresponsive for a second or two until I reconnect.

Gripe Two: Is it weird to call this an "ide" without giving me a YAML editor and file management? I could do everything in the terminal, which is alright I guess, but I figure editing/applying/inspecting all of that in the same app would be pretty chill! I currently use Pycharm to manage my yaml files, bash scripts, and some python code, but it clearly lacks all the k8s goodies Lens has.

I like the tool!

This looks cool, I'm not too sure about clicking a button and it installing a seperare prom into the cluster though..

Anyone use it without that feature, or is it really neccessary?

For now, k9s is ok

https://k8slens.dev/ provides more info.