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Check Services with curl in the Kyma Dashboard Terminal ​

Use the Kyma dashboard terminal to verify that Services running inside your cluster are responding correctly. This is useful when you want to quickly test a Service endpoint without leaving the dashboard or installing any local tools.

Prerequisites ​

Procedure ​

  1. In Kyma dashboard, go to Namespaces and select default.

  2. Go to Workloads > Deployments and choose Create.

  3. Enter nginx-test as the name and nginx as the Docker image, then choose Create.

  4. Wait until the Pod status changes to Running.

  5. Go to Discovery and Network > Services and choose Create.

  6. Enter nginx-test as the name. Under Ports, set Port and Target Port both to 80 and enter a port name, for example http. Under Selectors, add the key app and value nginx-test, then choose Create.

  7. In the top navigation bar of Kyma dashboard, choose the Terminal icon.

    Wait for the terminal to connect. The status in the terminal header changes from Connecting… to Connected to terminal.

  8. Send a GET request to fetch the response body from the Service:

    bash
    curl http://<service-name>.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local:<port>

    Example:

    bash
    curl http://nginx-test.default.svc.cluster.local:80

  9. To see only the HTTP status code (useful for verifying that a Service is up), run:

    bash
    curl -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" http://<service-name>.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local:<port>

Result ​

The terminal displays the HTTP response from the Service. A status code of 200 confirms the Service is reachable and responding correctly. Other common status codes are the following:

CodeMeaning
200OK. The Service is responding correctly.
404Not Found. The path doesn't exist on the Service.
503Service Unavailable. The Service exists but isn't ready.
000No connection. The Service is unreachable or the URL is wrong.

Troubleshooting ​

The terminal shows curl: (6) Could not resolve host

The DNS name is incorrect. Double-check the Service name, namespace, and port. To find the correct values, use the Kyma dashboard Services view.

The terminal shows curl: (7) Failed to connect

The Service is reachable but not accepting connections on the given port. Verify the port number in the Kyma dashboard Services view.

The output looks malformed or is missing a newline

This is a known display issue in the current terminal version. The response content is correct. Only the formatting in the terminal view is affected.