{
  "slug": "stern-adds-qps-and-burst-for-kubernetes-api-throttling-6e8d017d704c",
  "title": "stern adds --qps and --burst for Kubernetes API throttling",
  "tools": [
    "stern"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "agent"
  ],
  "introduced_at": "2026-05-02T12:28:02.000Z",
  "announced_at": "2026-05-02T12:28:02.000Z",
  "effective_at": null,
  "date_basis": "source-publication",
  "status": "unknown",
  "how": {
    "incantation": "When tailing many pods and limiting load on the Kubernetes API server, run Stern with `--qps` and `--burst` to set the client-side throttle limits.",
    "examples": [
      "stern . --qps 10 --burst 20"
    ],
    "gotchas": [
      "Version: v1.34.0",
      "pod-query (`.`) (required): A regular expression or Kubernetes resource query used to select pods; `.` matches pod names.",
      "--qps <number>: Maximum QPS to the Kubernetes API server. Default 0 uses the client-go default; `-1` disables client-side throttling.",
      "--burst <number>: Maximum burst for throttling requests to the Kubernetes API server. Default 0 uses the client-go default; ignored when `--qps=-1`.",
      "Prerequisite: Stern must be installed. It uses the Kubernetes context configured for the client; `$KUBECONFIG` can specify a kubeconfig file, or use `--kubeconfig`."
    ]
  },
  "why_it_matters": "When tailing many pods and controlling request load on the Kubernetes API server, configure client-side throttling.",
  "sources": [
    "https://github.com/stern/stern/releases/tag/v1.34.0",
    "https://github.com/stern/stern/blob/v1.34.0/README.md"
  ],
  "rank": 0.94031,
  "judge": {
    "publish": true,
    "judge_model": "codex-cli/gpt-6-luna+typesafe/jev-1.13.0",
    "prompt_version": "extract-v7+enrich-v2+judge-v2x3+jev-publish-v1"
  },
  "review_state": "approved",
  "provenance": {
    "run_id": "wave1-20261014",
    "verdict_id": "wave1-20261014:wave1-20261014-3a81a13677124ee7-0:gate",
    "evidence_hash": "3b5753142f2a4c7fc13683bae0d36ea73555b60d847548923ee53aa9c2a6e9d2"
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  "review": {
    "draft_hash": "039215c8fcf5c027c9d05e8f101383ed212d0bdfebec07ff10188d40a2de6aba",
    "reviewer": "publication-gate",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-07T00:00:00.000Z",
    "decision": "wave1-20261014:gate",
    "reason": "2 of 3 judge runs approved with p_yes >= 0.9 (mean 0.94 >= 0.9; 2 needed) and Jev gave 0.72 (>= 0.6 needed)."
  }
}