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Find the pod you are looking for: sorting and filtering on Nodes

avuru obs team
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On a real cluster the Pods table is a hundred-plus rows in no particular order, and the only way through it was the browser's own find-in-page. Both tables on the Nodes screen now sort and filter.

  • Sort by any column. Nodes by name, CPU, memory, network or pod count; pods by name, namespace, workload, node, CPU or memory. Nodes stay in name order by default, so the roster does not rearrange itself between refreshes, and busiest-first is one click away. Network sorts on send and receive together — ranking on receive alone would file a send-heavy node as quiet.

  • Filter as you type. Nodes by name; pods by name, namespace or workload, plus a namespace picker that appears once there is more than one namespace to choose between. Nothing waits on a query: the rows are already in the browser.

  • A filtered view is a link. The filter lives in the URL, like every other view here, so you can send a colleague the exact table you are looking at rather than describing it.

  • Counts that cannot mislead. With a filter active the heading reads "N of M", so a narrowed table is never mistaken for a shrinking cluster. And a filter that matches nothing says so — instead of showing the "install the sensor to collect node metrics" empty state, which would send you off to debug a perfectly healthy install.

See infrastructure metrics for what the Nodes screen collects and how.