ACK KubeSkoop overview and release notes

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ACK KubeSkoop is a network monitoring and diagnostics suite for Kubernetes. This topic covers component information, usage notes, and release notes.

Overview

Built on the open-source KubeSkoop, ACK KubeSkoop is a network monitoring and diagnostics suite for Kubernetes. It uses eBPF to locate and trace historical network events, greatly simplifying the diagnosis of Kubernetes network issues and reducing container network troubleshooting time. See Use KubeSkoop to troubleshoot network issues.

Release notes

August 2026

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Description

Impact

v1.2.1

August 3, 2026

  • Fixed the issue where metrics could not be collected by Managed Service for Prometheus.

  • Enabled RDMA probes by default.

  • Added default tolerations for Lingjun nodes.

No impact on workloads.

June 2026

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v1.2.0

June 4, 2026

  • Refined the default probe scope to enable only low-overhead probes.

  • Optimized memory usage.

  • Set default local metric retention to 7 days for investigation and auditing.

No impact on workloads.

March 2026

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v1.1.0

March 23, 2026

  • Added support for cgroup v2.

  • Added ARM architecture support.

No impact on workloads.

February 2025

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v1.0.4

February 20, 2025

Initial release of the component.

No impact on existing workloads.