Hound K8s

Local-first Kubernetes diagnostics for macOS

Understand what your cluster is doing before you reach for another terminal.

Hound K8s brings cluster inspection, evidence-based diagnostics, YAML workflows, logs, port forwarding, pod shell, and trace graph analysis into a focused Mac app.

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macOS app Local analysis AWS EKS sign-in No cloud account required
Hound K8s Trace Graph showing Ingress, Service, Endpoints, Pods, and Deployment relationships.

Overview

A desktop cockpit for real Kubernetes work.

Hound K8s is designed for DevOps engineers, SREs, platform teams, and developers who need a fast way to inspect resources and reason about runtime state.

Cluster overview

Summarize pod health, workload mix, node usage, events, and diagnosis status without leaving the workspace.

Resource workspace

Browse Pods, Deployments, ReplicaSets, Services, Ingresses, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVCs, Nodes, and RBAC resources.

Inspector-first workflow

Select a resource and see status, ownership, events, YAML, related objects, and supported actions in one place.

Hound K8s overview dashboard with pod health, workload mix, node usage, diagnostics, and cluster activity.

Diagnostics

Evidence-based failure analysis, not noisy guesswork.

Hound combines Kubernetes status, events, ownership, resource references, logs, and relationship context to explain failures conservatively. It avoids promoting weak or unrelated signals into a root cause.

Hound K8s Diagnosis Report showing a missing Secret key root cause, suggested fixes, and evidence chain.

Resource Workspace

Fast scanning for day-to-day cluster operations.

Filter resources, inspect live status, switch cluster context, review ownership, and keep the selected resource details visible while you work.

Hound K8s resource workspace showing Pods, cluster context switching, live status, and a selected resource inspector.
Trace Graph view showing workload relationships, dependency resources, breakpoints, and evidence.

Trace Graph

Follow traffic, ownership, and dependencies as separate signals.

Trace Graph visualizes how an Ingress reaches a Service, how EndpointSlices publish Pods, which controllers own those Pods, and where Secrets, ConfigMaps, PVCs, PVs, StorageClasses, and Nodes fit into the runtime path.

Local-first

Built for production and private environments.

Hound does not require a hosted backend, a vendor account, or AI diagnosis to provide value. It works with supported kubeconfig files and includes built-in cloud cluster connection flows.

Private by default

Cluster inspection and diagnosis run locally on your Mac.

Secret-aware

Secret nodes can be referenced for diagnostics without exposing secret values.

App Store friendly

Core flows use built-in app behavior instead of depending on unmanaged shell plugins.

Pricing

One purchase. Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Hound K8s is a paid-download universal purchase with no subscription, trial or additional in-app unlock. Buy once on the App Store for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Universal purchase US$9.99

Pay once before downloading. Local App Store prices vary by region. Existing users retain access.

Hound also works on iPhone and iPad.

The mobile edition shares the Kubernetes workflow while adapting navigation and workspace layout to each screen size.

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