Monitor TKG Cluster Status Using kubectl

You can monitor the status of provisioned TKG clusters using kubectl.

Procedure

Authenticate with the Supervisor.
Switch to the vSphere Namespace where the cluster is running.
```
kubectl config use-context SUPERVISOR-NAMESPACE
```
View a list of the Tanzu Kubernetes clusters running in the namespace.
```
kubectl get tanzukubernetesclusters
```
This command returns the status of the cluster.

View the details of the cluster.

kubectl describe tanzukubernetescluster <cluster-name>

The command returns the details of the cluster. In the Status section of the command output, you see detailed information about the cluster.

...
Status:
  Addons:
    Cni:
      Name:    calico
      Status:  applied
    Csi:
      Name:    pvcsi
      Status:  applied
    Psp:
      Name:    defaultpsp
      Status:  applied
  Cloudprovider:
    Name:  vmware-guest-cluster
  Cluster API Status:
    API Endpoints:
      Host:  10.161.90.22
      Port:  6443
    Phase:   provisioned
  Node Status:
    test-tanzu-cluster-control-plane-0:                  ready
    test-tanzu-cluster-workers-0-749458f97c-97ljv:       ready
  Phase:                                                 running
  Vm Status:
    test-tanzu-cluster-control-plane-0:                  ready
    test-tanzu-cluster-workers-0-749458f97c-97ljv:       ready
Events:                                                  <none>

Run additional kubectl commands to view more details about the cluster. See Check TKG Cluster Operations Using Kubectl.