Radar
skyhook-io·skyhook-io.Radar
Make sense of a live Kubernetes cluster - topology, events, Helm, GitOps, image internals, audits - over two surfaces: a UI optimized for humans, and an MCP server optimized for AI agents. Open source, on your laptop or in your cluster.
winget install --id skyhook-io.Radar --exact --source wingetLatest 1.12.2·August 31, 2026
Release Notes
Radar v1.12.2
Modern Kubernetes visibility. Local-first. No account. No cloud dependency. Fast.
Topology, event timeline, and service traffic — plus resource browsing and Helm management. Open source. Free forever.
Installation
Homebrew (macOS/Linux):
brew install skyhook-io/tap/radar
Scoop (Windows):
scoop bucket add skyhook https://github.com/skyhook-io/scoop-bucket
scoop install radar
PowerShell (Windows):
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skyhook-io/radar/main/install.ps1 | iex
Manual (macOS Apple Silicon):
curl -LO https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/releases/download/v1.12.2/radar_v1.12.2_darwin_arm64.tar.gz
tar -xzf radar_v1.12.2_darwin_arm64.tar.gz
sudo mv kubectl-radar /usr/local/bin/
Manual (macOS Intel):
curl -LO https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/releases/download/v1.12.2/radar_v1.12.2_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzf radar_v1.12.2_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv kubectl-radar /usr/local/bin/
Manual (Linux amd64):
curl -LO https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/releases/download/v1.12.2/radar_v1.12.2_linux_amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzf radar_v1.12.2_linux_amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv kubectl-radar /usr/local/bin/
Desktop App
Homebrew (macOS):
brew install --cask skyhook-io/tap/radar-desktop
Debian/Ubuntu:
curl -LO https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/releases/download/v1.12.2/radar-desktop_v1.12.2_linux_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i radar-desktop_v1.12.2_linux_amd64.deb
Fedora/RHEL:
curl -LO https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/releases/download/v1.12.2/radar-desktop_v1.12.2_linux_amd64.rpm
sudo rpm -i radar-desktop_v1.12.2_linux_amd64.rpm
Scoop (Windows):
scoop bucket add skyhook https://github.com/skyhook-io/scoop-bucket
scoop install radar-desktop
Windows (direct download): Download from the assets below.
CLI
Then run:kubectl radar
Changelog
• b2689552a9f2cb398be8124950e65d546b9ceab6 Add reproducible GPU ecosystem demo cluster (#1544) • 69cb454f7d3169f0399f2f9f8ea9bf502c3c8fac Add safe workload image updates with live rollout visibility (#1480) • c488b3bd55ff6d8d843a10719b9561feccae8445 Basic support for the GPU/batch/inference ecosystem (37 kinds) (#880) • fa87b5e4a6fa04c65012a51bec4d0d71d46b3532 Gofmt the tree and gate formatting in CI (#1541) • 028cae84925d63f63eae56758f0587df97d59f74 Keep quiet pod terminals alive through idle proxies (#1531) • 03c8ca28b7ade2e35e27ecacd08ca7971a318722 Make read-only diagnose strictly non-mutating (#1565) • 40b824e7244a48db871aad07d72a363c2699869f Make resource discovery init survive failure, retry, and context switches (#1539) • c95c783728021e01a46297a429adc9d72ce40ad0 Mark denied namespaces in the namespace picker (#1532) • 8df9cacb833c531f7dcdaf34394faffefce0d680 Name each failed Gateway in a policy's mixed-failure status (#1543) • 50f63742e6bcf2626ca94f1f3431354f8f0248f0 Pin Service/Job pairing complexity by operation count (#1542) • bc63d0e49561789ee59b8aad7c69759a5ef8ade6 Position Radar as an operational Kubernetes MCP server (#1540) • 5b261ea9a04a348fd8d011eda12531e45b91d766 Read Gateway API policy status, which lives per-ancestor (#1538) • e4630d2b704cd1256f78436a878000d16f865e3c Reopen the Desktop app on its last used cluster (#1467) • ae900258507743fb1dfbf06b13f900428407bdd0 Scope curated columns to the API group they were written for (#1533) • b9dfd843c988105f43e8ba8fb8cb2e7cb6c24620 Show in-cluster Radar upgrade status (#1573) • c3dd194037c024750d1fbd3416eb66bca368963d Show real columns and status for CRDs Radar hasn't curated (#1524) • 94ae697ff46128e66c70649f26d44641b87b3975 Sort and filter group-qualified kinds through their own readers (#1536) • a86acf75ff743e60acaee60dcef8e2f101d29e99 ci:harden and speed up release pipeline • fcc7f03f05d66ed9de6b9c8ded022ece2d98c549 desktop:log which webview library actually loaded (#1459) • f66862a12b023aa00ac03f2c09e9de08fb1de315 feat(cloud-funnel):rework the Cloud modal: short pitch, both lanes visible, honest trust row (#1439) • e6b7d82a43f3f62154a4998140295625a5b0e6b0 feat(desktop):keep the app running when the macOS window closes (#1466) • 1635f536fd0590999387618c224f27149ccac3f2 feat:add Kubernetes 1.37 compatibility support (#1529) • 62b7cf3e46f174a9da5316a2af169f9ad00b48e3 feat:make Upgrade impact easier to find (#1510) • fe707933b4a2acfaf346384faf82c1521a15cd59 fix(auth):key the permission cache by username + groups (#1518) • 61a2d36bd5674f71037635f6ebae045bd102b38a fix(copy):hold the pod-file exec open until the whole file has arrived (#1521) • 0002ece2198742ac8608d5bf5755fe5f1716a12c fix(discovery):prefer list/watch-capable resource on bare-kind collision (#1516) • 8f429e53950817d60c540e53aaa0f08870e840b3 fix(issues):connect missing webhook Services to blocked workloads (#1391) • c920d2db5dbc50d5a650a697e9ad7f8b14781fe1 fix(issues):preserve honest onset provenance (#1390) • 522a529321f80b6ef45503ad6a61ac97c130c7a0 fix(localterm):enforce --disable-local-terminal at endpoint (#1534) • 678a99a734adc84950950f3293fb2fbe4f6e13ef fix(logs):flush pod-log SSE response before the blocking follow stream (#1517) • 1e036e0272c5f4c3a5e5077e00516a61e4b1686b fix(prom):reach headless Prometheus by its own service DNS (#1514) • 88107dffa7ac2fc68ca187d545b10db99118a6d3 fix(rollouts):promote full after rollback silently did nothing (#1512) • 7d377d19a14cd4ed31b66ad4ce443bb10cda8ef7 fix(server):restrict host terminal access (#1537) • a6ede78a9379e0d973cdd140d501c078dcce8db1 fix(timeline):merge cluster-scoped resources into their app group (#1515) • 77cf532942a969f518bd3333b4c8aef240280d21 fix(ui):center cluster name vertically in the scope pill segment (#1509) • 41cbd286bbbafa190133f2ab7ab018690f68eff2 fix(ui):clear the error boundary on navigation (#1507) • 2caec602b3136211a34d4f38a2654738a9028a49 fix(upgrade):attribute incomplete evidence precisely (#1513)
Installer type: zip
Details
- Homepage
- https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Publisher
- skyhook-io
- Support
- https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/issues
Tags
argocdcloud-nativegitopshelmk8skubectl-pluginkuberneteskubernetes-dashboardkubernetes-monitoringkubernetes-toolskubernetes-uimcp-server