Kubernetes Pod Logs - View Latest Logs Faster

 We have discussed about enabling detailed request, resposnse logs in ASP.NET Core APIs in the post "Log All Requests in ASP.NET Core API". In a contianerinzed API running in a Kubernetes cluster, say AKS, you would be interested in reading these logs to debug some error or for quick monitoring on the requests made. Implementing a proper monitoring solution using ELK for Kubernetes is more useful, however, doing a quick look at logs of contianers/pods will help as well at times. When you run  kubectl logs podname-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxx -n k8snamesapce you will get the entire log of a particular pod. But depending on pod age it may be a long log and you might only be interested in couple of minutes or last hour details to have a quick look. Let's see how we can limit and read pod logs for a time frame or number of log lines.