Lens Desktop

Lens is a graphical IDE for Kubernetes. 2025 adds Lens Prism (Agent Mode) to reason about cluster issues.

When to Use

• Visualization: Accessing Prometheus metrics (built-in) alongside Pods.
• Multi-Cluster: Managing 10+ clusters with easy context switching.
• Helm: Visual Helm chart management (upgrade/rollback).

Core Concepts

Hotbar

Quick access to different clusters.

Metrics Integration

Detects Prometheus automatically and adds graphs to Pod/Node views.