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Using trace network

The network gadget monitors the network activity in the specified pods and records the list of TCP connections and UDP streams.

On Kubernetes​

  • Start the gadget:
$ kubectl gadget trace network -n demo
  • Generate some network traffic:
$ kubectl run -ti -n demo --image=busybox --restart=Never shell -- wget 1.1.1.1.nip.io
  • Observe the results:
K8S.NODE         K8S.NAMESPACE    K8S.PODNAME                    TYPE      PROTO  PORT    REMOTE
minikube         demo             shell                          OUTGOING  UDP    53      svc kube-system/kube-dns
minikube         demo             shell                          OUTGOING  TCP    80      endpoint 1.1.1.1

With ig​

Let's start the gadget in a terminal:

$ sudo ig trace network -c test-container
RUNTIME.CONTAINERNAME           TYPE      PROTO PORT  REMOTE

Run a container that generates TCP and UDP network traffic:

$ docker run --name test-container -ti --rm busybox /bin/sh -c "wget http://1.1.1.1.nip.io/"

The tools will show the network activity:

$ sudo ig trace network -c test-container
RUNTIME.CONTAINERNAME           TYPE      PROTO PORT  REMOTE
demo                            OUTGOING  UDP   53    192.168.67.1
demo                            OUTGOING  TCP   80    1.1.1.1