Open it from the panel
- Open the cluster
In the panel go to Kubernetes and open the cluster. The cluster must be active.
- Choose the access level
Press Open dashboard. Tick Read-only if you only want to look: a read-only session can view objects but cannot change them. Without it the session is admin, with the same power as your kubeconfig.
- Use the new tab
The dashboard opens in a new tab on its own address, kd- followed by a random session name and then .bookmyhost.com. You are signed in already; there is no token to paste.
Who can open it
You need a panel login with permission to manage the cluster (owner, admin or technical role). Billing and viewer members cannot open it. Resellers and our staff acting on a client account can open it for that client, and every open and close is written to the audit log.
The dashboard address always ends in bookmyhost.com, also for clients of a reseller with a white-label panel. The dashboard itself carries no BookMyHost branding.
How a session ends
A session ends when you close it from the panel, sit idle for a while, reach its hard time limit, or lose the right to manage the cluster. Access through the panel stops at once. The credentials the session used inside the cluster stop working within about 10 seconds, because the cluster keeps a short cache of tokens.
Open a new session from the panel whenever you need one. You can keep a few sessions open per cluster at a time.
What it does not cover
- Panel login only: the dashboard cannot be opened with an API key or through MCP, because it is a browser session. API keys and MCP can still read cluster details and download the kubeconfig where the key has the role.
- Pod shells work, but through plain HTTP streaming rather than WebSockets, so a long idle shell may reconnect.
- The dashboard keeps working during an upgrade, with a warning banner. Resize and restore wait until the upgrade ends.