# vmware-archive/octant

Highly extensible platform for developers to better understand the complexity of Kubernetes clusters.

Repository: https://github.com/vmware-archive/octant
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/octant
Homepage: https://octant.dev
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: golang, octant, kubernetes-clusters, go, kubernetes
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-01-19T20:55:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2632, "days_push": 1322, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6241, forks 485 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:40.886228+00:00)

## What it is
Octant is a developer-centric web interface for inspecting and visualizing Kubernetes clusters, offering resource graphs, log streaming, port forwarding, and object management. It is extensible via a gRPC-based plugin system, but VMware has ended active development and the repository is archived.

## Use cases
- visualize relationships between kubernetes objects
- debug pods with port forwarding
- stream container logs without kubectl
- inspect kubernetes cluster state in a web ui
- extend kubernetes dashboard views with plugins
- switch between kubeconfig contexts and namespaces

## When to choose
- you need a graphical alternative to kubectl for cluster introspection
- you want to visualize object relationships and workload status
- you need a plugin-extensible kubernetes dashboard

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software - the project is archived and unsupported
- you need production cluster administration rather than developer debugging
- you rely on compatibility with the latest kubernetes versions

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: developer-tools, gui, monitoring, plugin-system, logging
- domain: developer-tools, monitoring
- platform: windows, cross-platform, go
- tags: kubernetes-dashboard, kubernetes-visualization, cluster-inspection, port-forwarding, log-streaming, grpc-plugins, vmware, archived, containers, devops, linux, macos, web-server

## Member repositories
- vmware-archive/octant (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:40.886228+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:47:10.982516+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vmware-archive/octant (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:40.886228+00:00, sha 9af0cdd14898)
  - homepage: https://octant.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:22.168937+00:00, sha a500ac1faaed)
  - site_page: https://octant.dev/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:22.177930+00:00, sha 5f8247d62735)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.