<p>What is the best way to troubleshoot when kubectl doesn't responde or exit with timeout? How to get it work again?</p>

<p>I'm having my kubectl as well as helm on my cluster down when installing a helm chart.    </p>

YasiuMaster
<p>General advice:</p>

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<li><p>Check if your kubectl is connecting to the correct kube-api endpoint. You could take a look at your kubeconfig. It is by default stored in $HOME/.kube. Try simple CURL to make sure that it is not DNS problem, etc.</p></li>
<li><p>Take a look at your nodes' logs by ssh into the nodes that you have: see <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/debug-cluster/#looking-at-logs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a> for more details instructions and log locations. </p></li>
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<p>Once you have more information, you could get yourself started in the investigation of problems.</p>
