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Want to see CPU/Memory usage without installing monitoring tools? kubectl top shows real-time stats.

Node Resource Usage:

kubectl top nodes

# Output:
# NAME       CPU    MEMORY
# node-1     45%    2.5Gi
# node-2     23%    1.8Gi

Pod Resource Usage:

kubectl top pods

# Or specific namespace:
kubectl top pods -n production

# Sort by CPU:
kubectl top pods --sort-by=cpu

# Sort by memory:
kubectl top pods --sort-by=memory

Find Resource Hogs:

# Top 5 CPU consumers
kubectl top pods -A --sort-by=cpu | head -6

Requires: Metrics Server must be installed (most clusters have it by default)