#4199·k9s

[Feature] Filter strictly by name field

Author: rcrlikCreated Aug 30, 2026Updated Sep 17, 2026
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. We organize our pods/deployments by prefixes in their names. But when I try to filter the view by / (slash) key, even when I use regex anchors or something, it either includes pods that I don't want to have or misses pods that clearly have that string in the name.

Some are provided by 3rd party companies so I cannot control their labels or anything else to fix this filtering issue.

Describe the solution you'd like I am not familiar with Go enough, but it looks like /text filtering uses bunch of other fields or attributes. Not just a name. Correct?

Describe alternatives you've considered Would it be possible to add some filter option to really filter just by the name in the table on the screen?

Additional context Documentation for filtering is a bit scarce and it's not clear to me how it really works. So filtering my resources is a gamble for me.

Thank you. K9s is a great tool. This is the only shortcoming I've been having so far.