Troubleshooting

Enabling debug logs

Pass --alsologtostderr to minikube commands to see detailed log output output. To increase the log verbosity, you can use:

• -v=1: verbose messages
• -v=2: really verbose messages
• -v=8: more log messages than you can possibly handle.

Example:

minikube start --alsologtostderr --v=2 will start minikube and output all the important debug logs to stderr.

Gathering VM logs

To debug issues where Kubernetes failed to deploy, it is very useful to collect the Kubernetes pod and kernel logs:

minikube logs

Viewing Pod Status

To view the deployment state of all Kubernetes pods, use:

kubectl get po -A

Example output:

NAMESPACE     NAME                        READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
kube-system   coredns-5c98db65d4-299md    1/1     Running   0          11m
kube-system   coredns-5c98db65d4-qlpkd    1/1     Running   0          11m
kube-system   etcd-minikube               1/1     Running   0          10m
kube-system   gvisor                      1/1     Running   0          11m
...
kube-system   storage-provisioner         1/1     Running   0          11m

To view more detailed information about a pod, use:

kubectl describe pod <name> -n <namespace>

Debugging hung start-up

minikube will wait ~8 minutes before giving up on a Kubernetes deployment. If you want to see startup fails more immediately, consider using:

minikube logs --problems

This will attempt to surface known errors, such as invalid configuration flags. If nothing interesting shows up, try minikube logs.