In Kubernetes, logs can be used for debugging and monitoring activities to a certain level. Basic logging can be used to detect configuration problems, but for cluster-level logging, an external backend is required to store and query logs. Cluster-level logging will be covered in the Building centralized logging in Kubernetes using the EFK stack and Logging Kubernetes using Google Stackdriver recipes.

In this section, we will learn how to access basic logs based on the options that are available in Kubernetes.