macOS menu bar · Windows tray

The Kubernetes menu bar app
for macOS & Windows

Kubebar keeps your Kubernetes clusters one click away - in the macOS menu bar and the Windows system tray. Health at a glance, live pod logs, one-click restarts and scaling. No dashboard to open, no Electron window.

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14-day free trial · from 12 € a year · no account required

Everything from the menu bar

Status at a glance. A health dot in your menu bar / tray - know instantly when a cluster needs attention.
Live pod logs. Stream and search logs in a click, with desktop alerts for crashes and high usage.
Quick actions. Restart pods, scale deployments, rollout restart/undo, cordon/drain nodes - each with a safety confirmation.
Every cluster. AKS, EKS, GKE, DOKS and local (Docker Desktop) - anything in your kubeconfig.
Native & private. No account, no login; your cluster access stays on your machine.
Billed yearly, not per seat. From 12 € a year - no monthly per-user subscription.
Kubernetes cluster overview in the macOS menu bar
One-click pod and deployment actions in Kubebar

Put Kubernetes in your menu bar in three steps

  1. Point your kubeconfig at the cluster. Any cluster in your kubeconfig works — cloud (GKE, AKS, EKS, DOKS) or local (Docker Desktop, minikube, kind).
  2. Open Kubebar. It picks up every context automatically — no account and no cloud backend.
  3. Choose a context. Switch clusters and namespaces right from the menu bar or tray.

What you can do from the menu bar

Kubebar sits in the macOS menu bar and the Windows tray, reading the contexts you already have — monitoring becomes a glance, not a task.

Health at a glance. A status dot in the menu bar or tray turns red the moment a pod crashes or CPU and memory run high — with desktop alerts, so you notice without watching a dashboard.
Live pod logs. Stream logs from any pod in a real-time window, filter them, and copy or save exactly what you need.
One-click actions. Restart pods, scale deployments, roll out restart or undo, and cordon or drain nodes — each with a confirmation step so nothing happens by accident.
Switch clusters instantly. Every context from your kubeconfig is one click away; jump between clusters and namespaces straight from the menu bar.
Multi-cloud in one app. Manage GKE, AKS, EKS, DigitalOcean and local clusters like Docker Desktop, minikube and kind side by side.
Native and private. No account and no cloud backend — your credentials and kubeconfig never leave your machine.

Why a menu-bar app for Kubernetes?

A menu-bar app changes how often you actually check your clusters: instead of opening a dashboard, the status is always in the corner of your screen. Kubebar shows a health dot, streams logs and runs one-click actions from the macOS menu bar and Windows tray, so you spot trouble early and fix it in seconds.

Related comparisons

Kubebar is compared against a few different tools - these pages go into the detail of each.

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Free for 14 days. Then from 12 € a year.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does the Kubernetes menu bar app do?

Kubebar keeps your clusters one click away in the macOS menu bar and Windows tray — health at a glance, live pod logs, and one-click restarts and scaling, with no dashboard or Electron window.

Which platforms are supported?

macOS via the menu bar and Windows via the system tray.