Radar Files

Radar v1.12.0

Modern Kubernetes visibility. Local-first. No account. No cloud dependency. Fast.

Topology, event timeline, and service traffic — plus resource browsing and Helm management. Open source. Free forever.

Installation

Homebrew (macOS/Linux):

:::bash
brew install skyhook-io/tap/radar

Scoop (Windows):

:::powershell
scoop bucket add skyhook https://github.com/skyhook-io/scoop-bucket
scoop install radar

PowerShell (Windows):

:::powershell
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skyhook-io/radar/main/install.ps1 | iex

Manual (macOS Apple Silicon):

:::bash
curl -LO https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/releases/download/v1.12.0/radar_v1.12.0_darwin_arm64.tar.gz
tar -xzf radar_v1.12.0_darwin_arm64.tar.gz
sudo mv kubectl-radar /usr/local/bin/

Manual (macOS Intel):

:::bash
curl -LO https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/releases/download/v1.12.0/radar_v1.12.0_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzf radar_v1.12.0_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv kubectl-radar /usr/local/bin/

Manual (Linux amd64):

:::bash
curl -LO https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/releases/download/v1.12.0/radar_v1.12.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzf radar_v1.12.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv kubectl-radar /usr/local/bin/

Desktop App

Homebrew (macOS):

:::bash
brew install --cask skyhook-io/tap/radar-desktop

Debian/Ubuntu:

:::bash
curl -LO https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/releases/download/v1.12.0/radar-desktop_v1.12.0_linux_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i radar-desktop_v1.12.0_linux_amd64.deb

Fedora/RHEL:

:::bash
curl -LO https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/releases/download/v1.12.0/radar-desktop_v1.12.0_linux_amd64.rpm
sudo rpm -i radar-desktop_v1.12.0_linux_amd64.rpm

Scoop (Windows):

:::powershell
scoop bucket add skyhook https://github.com/skyhook-io/scoop-bucket
scoop install radar-desktop

Windows (direct download): Download from the assets below.

CLI

Then run: kubectl radar

Changelog

• [f53c05] Add weekly Dependabot batch workflow (#1496)
• [153d15] Detect RKE2 platforms and Canal CNI (#1475)
• [27ed37] Support OpenCost and Kubecost currency labels and overrides (#1472)
• [62dd6d] Support combined kubeconfig file and directory sources (#1478)
• [eec2ef] chore(chart): replace stale chart version/appVersion with 0.0.0-dev placeholder (#1477)
• [889ac2] chore(codeql): exclude go/log-injection via shared config (#1469)
• [819593] deps: batch soaked Dependabot updates (2026-08-26) (#1495)
• [30ba84] feat(mcp): expose upgrade impact analysis via MCP (get_cluster_upgrade_readiness) (#1481)
• [8dee68] feat(scripts): add Cilium/Hubble demo cluster with all connection lanes (#1502)
• [e36890] feat: add Kubernetes 1.37 upgrade readiness checks (#1504)
• [957784] fix(metrics): branch discovery probes on run mode (in-cluster vs local) (#1497)
• [465974] fix(nodes): parse pod capacity as a Quantity, not a raw integer (#1441) (#1451)
• [04bb1c] fix(traffic): dial Hubble Relay directly before falling back to port-forward (#1483)
• [b3cc71] fix(ui): prevent drawer layout shift (#1474)
• [607311] fix(updater): surface Close errors when extracting the new binary (#1468)
• [235e84] fix: copy resource names over HTTP (#1465)
• [53b69b] fix: sweep the remaining raw Quantity parsers (quota ratios, capacity rows) (#1471)
• [917447] test(loadtest): deflake orphan-skeleton assertions with client-list reads (#1500)