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title: "Pod Troubleshooting with AI Agent in Your K8s Cluster | Lens — Lens"
description: "CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled or Pending? Right-click the pod and Lens K8S IDE launches Claude Code, Codex CLI or Gemini CLI with your cluster context attached."
url: https://lenshq.io/use-cases/ask-ai/
---

Ask AI

# Your pod or deployment fails?

Troubleshoot any Kubernetes resource with AI in a single click.

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![Lens K8S IDE with the Ask AI pane open on the fases-aks cluster. The prompt asks for the root cause of the failing broken-demo deployment and a one-line fix. Claude Code answers from the cluster: the deployment references the image tag nginx:no-such-tag-9999, which does not exist on Docker Hub, so the pod is stuck in ImagePullBackOff, and gives the fix, kubectl set image deployment/broken-demo nginx=nginx:1.27](https://lenshq.io/images/use-cases/ask-ai-troubleshoot.webp)

How Lens resolves it

## Context attached, not pasted

The feature is called Ask AI. Lens points KUBECONFIG at the cluster you have open and puts a matching kubectl on the PATH, so the agent reads the pod itself.

![The context menu on a pod row in Lens K8S IDE, with an Ask Claude Code entry open on a submenu of Summarize, Analyze events, Analyze metrics, Analyze logs and Analyze related resources](https://lenshq.io/images/use-cases/ask-ai-pod-menu.webp)

### Pick your agent

Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI or OpenCode.

### Right-click any resource

Summarize it, or analyze its logs, events and metrics.

### Answers that click back

Resources come back as Lens links. Ask AI is Premium.

Why it works

## No pasting, no API key

Any agent

Five presets, or your own command

[Lens documentation, Configure Ask AI](https://docs.lenshq.io/k8slens/ask-ai/configure-ask-ai/)

No API key

AI provider to configure in Lens

[Lens release notes, June 2026](https://lenshq.io/blog/lens-release-june-26/)

All resources

Right-click to investigate any

[Lens documentation, Using Ask AI](https://docs.lenshq.io/k8slens/ask-ai/using-ask-ai/)

Free. No payment details needed.

## Try Ask AI in the Lens 14-day trial

Every premium feature, unlocked for 14 days.

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### AWS EKS

Discover EKS clusters across your AWS accounts.

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### Azure AKS

Discover AKS clusters across your Azure subscriptions.

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### Ask AI

Connect your own AI CLI to any Kubernetes object, with live cluster context.

[Read the docs](https://docs.lenshq.io/k8slens/ask-ai/)

### Lens MCP Server

Reach every cluster Lens knows from Claude, Codex or any MCP client.

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### Argo CD

Sync and health for every Application, next to its pods.

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### Flux CD

Reconciliation, drift and failures across every Flux resource.

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### Security Center

Scan the images your cluster runs for CVEs and exposed secrets.

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### Hotbar

Quick access to the clusters you open most.

[Read the docs](https://docs.lenshq.io/k8slens/using-lens/hotbar/)

### Advanced editor

Edit a live resource in diff mode, and revert in one click.

[Read the docs](https://docs.lenshq.io/k8slens/using-lens/advanced-editor/)

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