ClusterDoctor

Cluster Doctor showing a failing workload with its root cause and the fix commandCluster Doctor showing a failing workload with its root cause and the fix command

Pick a cluster and a namespace. Cluster Doctor finds what is broken, names the root cause in one line and gives you the commands to fix it

Steer to What Broke

A real scan of the kubeiq-demo namespace found 9 failing workloads. Pick one, or turn the wheel, and read its entry in the log

Log of kind-kubeiq-dev22 Oct 2026, 23:04:40
Bearing 000°·Confidence 94paymentDeployment in kubeiq-demo
Position
Deployment/kubeiq-demo/payment
Observed
Environment variable DATABASE_URL is missingAdd DATABASE_URL to the container env, usually from a Secret or ConfigMap
Action
  • kubectl set env deployment/payment DATABASE_URL=<database-url> -c app -n kubeiq-demo
Check
  • kubectl rollout status deployment/payment -n kubeiq-demo --timeout=120s
  • kubectl get pods -n kubeiq-demo -l app=payment
Affected
Deployment/kubeiq-demo/paymentPod/kubeiq-demo/payment-6858dfbd56-bv8fnPod/kubeiq-demo/payment-6858dfbd56-tj6s7
Next time
Validate required configuration at startup and in CI before deploying

How a Scan Runs

Every scan takes the same four steps, and none of them changes your cluster. The one on this page took 15 seconds and checked 11 pods, 9 workloads, 8 events and 13 logs

Pods, events, workloads, services, nodes and logs, read with the access your kubeconfig already has. Secret values are never read

Cluster Manager listing the pods of kubeiq-demo with their status and restarts

Known on Sight

The failures Cluster Doctor recognizes in seconds: CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, ImagePullBackOff, Pending pods, Probe failures, Missing config, Service selectors, Init containers, Failed jobs, Stuck rollouts, Node pressure. Anything else goes to the AI agent, so an unhealthy pod is never reported as fine

Safe to Point at Production

Cluster Doctor looks and explains. Changes happen only when you run the commands yourself, or in Cluster Manager once an admin allows them

Read-Only
Cluster Doctor uses read-only access and never reads secret values, only their names and metadata
Private by Default
Passwords, tokens and keys in logs and config are masked before anything reaches a model
Your Model, or None
OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Bedrock, Azure, a LiteLLM proxy or a local model. Without one, known failures are still found and fixed
Install KubeiQ once and Cluster Doctor is ready under the Products menuInstall