To open a shell session in the container running Telegraf run the following: - kubectl exec -i -t --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }} $(kubectl get pods --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }} -l app.kubernetes.io/name={{ include "telegraf.name" . }} -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') /bin/sh To tail the logs for a Telegraf pod in the Daemonset run the following: - kubectl logs -f --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }} $(kubectl get pods --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }} -l app.kubernetes.io/name={{ include "telegraf.name" . }} -o jsonpath='{ .items[0].metadata.name }') To list the running Telegraf instances run the following: - kubectl get pods --namespace {{ .Release.Namespace }} -l app.kubernetes.io/name={{ include "telegraf.name" . }} -w