Persist logs for investigation or attachment to a ticket.
Section: Incident Collection
Save pod logs to a file
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Export object YAML during incident
Capture the exact spec and status for later analysis.
Dump cluster info to a directory
Collect cluster state to files instead of stdout.
Read logs via deployment resource
Print logs from a workload resource instead of a single pod.
Read logs from kube-system pods
Aggregate logs from a system component by label.
Get logs from a named container
Required for sidecars and multi-container pods.