k8s not showing any pods or deployments

[SilverHunter1st]

Hello,

i have installed pulse in my local k8s cluster and installed the agent to the k8s master host but i only get information about the cluster and nodes but didn't get any pods or deployyments:

I also add the following commands to the agent "--kube-include-namespace all --kube-include-all-deployments --kube-include-all-pods" but nothing changes.

Also changing the log level to debug for the agent doesn't show any problems.

{"level":"info","version":"v5.0.2","pulse_url":"http://<INTERNAL-IP>","host_agent":true,"docker_agent":false,"kubernetes_agent":true,"proxmox_mode":false,"auto_update":true,"time":"2025-12-25T01:54:51+01:00","message":"Starting Pulse Unified Agent"} {"level":"info","component":"pulse-kubernetes-agent","cluster_id":"2<CLUSTER-ID>","cluster_name":"kubernetes-admin@kubernetes","server":"https://<HOST>:6443","context":"kubernetes-admin@kubernetes","time":"2025-12-25T02:11:04+01:00","message":"Kubernetes agent initialized"} {"level":"info","time":"2025-12-25T02:11:04+01:00","message":"Kubernetes agent module started"}

Is there any idea of what I'm missing ?

[rcourtman]

The issue is --kube-include-namespace all.

This flag filters namespaces to only include ones matching the pattern. Since no namespace is literally named "all", this filters out all your pods and deployments.

Fix: Remove that flag entirely. By default, all namespaces are already included.

Your working command should be:

--kube-include-all-pods --kube-include-all-deployments

After updating the flags, restart the agent:

sudo systemctl restart pulse-agent

If you installed via the installer script, update the systemd unit:

sudo systemctl edit pulse-agent --force

And set:

[Service]
Environment="PULSE_KUBE_INCLUDE_ALL_PODS=true"
Environment="PULSE_KUBE_INCLUDE_ALL_DEPLOYMENTS=true"

Then sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl restart pulse-agent.

[SilverHunter1st]

Hello rcourtman

thank you so much for your help, that worked great and i now can see all pods and deployments.

One information that after enabeling proxmox (installting the agend on the first node) the k8s was gone. I tried with a fresh deployment and also the other way arround first installting the proxmox agent but still the same problem. After a redeploy (without any changes) now proxmox and kubernetes are working finde inside pulse.