Plugin for kubectl that will help you to gather diagnostic info from dotnet application. It can work with .Net Core 3.0+ applications and Kubernetes clusters with docker runtime.

At the moment the following diagnostic tools are supported:

• dotnet-gcdump
• dotnet-trace

Inspired by kubectl-flame.

You can find latest release on repository release page. Once you download compatible with your OS binary, move it to any directory specified in your $PATH.

Feel free to use it as a kubectl plugin or standalone executable (kubectl shovel/kubectl-shovel)

Get gcdump:

kubectl shovel gcdump --pod-name pod-name-74df554df7-qldq7 -o ./dump.gcdump

Or trace:

kubectl shovel trace --pod-name pod-name-74df554df7-qldq7 -o ./trace.nettrace

You can find more info in cli documentation or by using -h/--help flag.

It will run the job on the specified pod's node and mount its /tmp folder with dotnet-diagnostic socket. After this specified diagnostic tool will be launched.