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Lens - The way the world runs Kubernetes

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Summary Information

Updated 12 minutes ago
Type:ApplicationCategory(s):Kubernetes & OperatorsObservability & MonitoringCloud Native & Infrastructure
Added to GitGenius on December 18th, 2022
Created on November 12th, 2018
Open Issues & Pull Requests: 1,164 (+0)
GitHub issues: Enabled
Number of forks: 1,472
Total Stargazers: 23,244 (+0)
Total Subscribers: 237 (+0)

Repository Insights (GitGenius)

Median issue/PR response: 3.6 days
Mean response time: 312.3 days
90th percentile: 1265.3 days
Tracked items: 451

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Maintainer activity

3 people did triage or write work on this repository in the last 12 months.

Counts unlabeled, assigned, unassigned, milestoned, demilestoned, locked, unlocked over the last 12 months. These are issue and pull request events that require triage or write permission. Commits and code review are not counted. labeled and renamed are excluded because GitHub issue forms record the issue author as the actor. Figures from October 18, 2026. This count is not comparable across projects: each project's automation decides which of these events a person emits. How this is counted.

How this project is maintained

Practically every issue opened in the past year has drawn a reply. 100% of open issues come from outside the core team, so the backlog reflects real-world use rather than internal planning. Work labelled "bug" is answered fastest, typically in about 3 days, while "area/ui" waits about 51 months. Only 52% of issues opened in the past year have been closed.

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Issue Activity (beta)

Open issues: 300
New in 7 days: 0
Closed in 7 days: 1
Avg open age: 729 days
Stale 30+ days: 299
Stale 90+ days: 296

Recent activity

Opened in 7 days: 0
Closed in 7 days: 1
Comments in 7 days: 1
Events in 7 days: 2

Top labels

  • bug (317)
  • enhancement (126)
  • area/metrics (19)
  • area/ui (12)
  • p1 (7)
  • area/windows (6)
  • area/kubernetes-next (5)
  • area/logs (5)

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Detailed Description

Lens is a Kubernetes IDE and desktop application developed by Mirantis that serves as a comprehensive management and troubleshooting platform for Kubernetes workloads. According to the README, Lens has over one million users globally and is positioned as the most popular Kubernetes IDE in the world. The application is designed specifically for developers and DevOps engineers who need an intuitive, context-aware user interface to manage complex Kubernetes environments. The project is classified across multiple domains including observability, management, monitoring, cluster monitoring, resource visualization, and container orchestration, reflecting its broad scope in the Kubernetes ecosystem.

This distribution suggests the project maintains active bug tracking while also considering feature development.

These connections indicate that Lens development draws expertise from and potentially shares knowledge with some of the most significant infrastructure projects in the software development ecosystem.

An important aspect of this repository's history is that the open-source version of Lens Desktop has been retired and is no longer actively maintained. The README explicitly states that while the Lens Desktop product continues to be actively developed and supported by Mirantis, direct contributions to the core product are no longer accepted. Instead, the project has shifted its contribution model to rely on extensions developed using the Lens extension API. The legacy source code for the open-source version remains available in the repository's master branch for reference and historical purposes.

The project is released under the MIT license and is owned by Mirantis, Inc., with both Lens and the Lens Logo trademarked by the company. Users can access commercial support through Lens Pro and Lens Enterprise offerings, which provide 24/5 support in addition to the community forums available at forums.k8slens.dev. The application emphasizes its value proposition for teams and organizations seeking to learn Kubernetes, increase productivity, and consolidate their tooling requirements for cloud-native development and operations.