radar

Name: radar Review
Item: radar
Rating: 3.8
Author: Aaron Matthews

Skill Infrastructure Solid

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Solid Scanned — metadata only

Kubernetes operations teams lose time switching between kubectl, dashboards, and monitoring tools.

The missing open source Kubernetes UI. Topology, event timeline, and service traffic — plus resource browsing and Helm management.

Visualizing service topology to identify unexpected inter-pod communication patterns
Tracking event timelines during incidents to pinpoint failure sequences
Browsing cluster resources without writing kubectl commands

2,730 starsApache-2.0 (commercial OK)FreeQuick setup

Why it matters

Kubernetes operations teams lose time switching between kubectl, dashboards, and monitoring tools. Radar consolidates topology visualization, event timelines, and traffic flows in one open-source UI, cutting context-switching and reducing incident response time.

Best for

Platform engineers and SREs managing multi-service Kubernetes clusters who need real-time visibility into service dependencies and pod behavior without vendor lock-in.

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Source

https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar

By skyhook-io

How to Get It

Option 1: Claude Desktop App (Code Mode)Click the + button next to the prompt box → Plugins → Add plugin. Search and click Install. Skills work in Claude Code only.

Option 2: Paste into Claude CodeCopy the command below and paste it into your conversation. Claude will install it.

Command

curl -fsSL https://get.radarhq.io | sh && kubectl radar

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First thing to try

After installing, paste this into Claude:

Help me visualizing service topology to identify unexpected inter-pod communication patterns

Prerequisiteskubectl configured with access to a Kubernetes cluster; runs on your laptop with zero cluster-side installationCostFree

Trust Signals Auto-scanned

Stars2,730Contributors35Last updated2026-08-05LicenseApache-2.0 (OK for commercial use)Known CVEsNone foundSources: GitHub Advisory Database + OSV.dev · Scanned 2026-08-12 · scanner vattempted-no-data

Community Pulse Growing

Discussed on Hacker News, Reddit

Radar: Local-first Kubernetes UI in a single Go binary — Hacker News · 15 pts
Show HN: Radar – Open-source Kubernetes UI/IDE. Try it in 15 seconds — Hacker News · 6 pts
skyhook-io/radar: Modern Kubernetes visibility. Topology, event timeline, and se — Reddit · 1 pts

3 mentions across 2 sources

Reviewer notes

Auto-scanned review. These are observations, not a security certification.

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 2,058 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license Apache-2.0.

Things to check

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Evaluation Scores

Evaluation

Ease of Use

4/5

Versatility

5/5

Reliability

3/5

Security

3/5

Overall score3.85 / 5.00 SolidEvaluatedMay 2026

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 2,058 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license Apache-2.0.

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