<p>I like to know how I can change the time interval of <code>kubectl top</code> for monitoring pods. At the moment it updates very slowly (I think it is more than 15s) and I want to have a more up to date values for the resource usage of my pods.</p>

<p>I am aware that I can use some other tools such as grafana, prometheus, etc. But when I work in terminal I like to have some simple monitoring tool running at the same environment.</p>

<p>There is no flag for <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/5a7b978c7401efad5672bcc876bcf5d3dfa71bd0/pkg/kubectl/cmd/top/top_pod.go#L42-L55" rel="noreferrer">kubectl top</a> for setting the refresh rate since it depends on the information collected by Heapster and Heapster depends on the <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-users/D-xsnFtmeAk/_KvfvjJHAQAJ" rel="noreferrer">kubelet metrics scraping interval</a>.</p>
