How do I get logs from all pods of a Kubernetes replication controller?

Question

Running kubectl logs shows me the stderr/stdout of one Kubernetes container.

How can I get the aggregated stderr/stdout of a set of pods, preferably those

Answer 1

You can get the logs from multiple containers using labels as Adrian Ng suggested:

kubectl logs --selector app=yourappname

In case you have a pod with multiple containers, the above command is going to fail and you'll need to specify the container name:

kubectl logs --selector app=yourappname --container yourcontainername

Note: If you want to see which labels are available to you, the following command will list them all:

kubectl get pod  -o template --template='{{.metadata.labels}}'

...where the output will look something like

map[app:yourappname controller-revision-hash:598302898 pod-template-generation:1]

Note that some of the labels may not be shared by other pods - picking "app" seems like the easiest one