<p>The &quot;PF&quot; field refers to port forwarding.</p>
<p>You may setup port forwarding, (&quot;shift-f&quot; in pod view). This indicator probably means you have setup some port forwarding -- in my case, it prints some weird character.</p>
<p>Although to be honest ... I only figured it out, searching their git repository history .... Introduced here: <a href="https://github.com/derailed/k9s/commit/f1111174aa8df815e25b0a029ba1465d3a855b49#diff-5b19eaab395254884c7dff045b0e50a599c29794e80a81fe42c9667450b6e9d4" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/derailed/k9s/commit/f1111174aa8df815e25b0a029ba1465d3a855b49#diff-5b19eaab395254884c7dff045b0e50a599c29794e80a81fe42c9667450b6e9d4</a></p>

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Aha, so it wasn’t related to [Priority and Fairness](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/flow-control/); it is supposed to confirm my instrumentation rather than to indicate some misbehaviour of the workload that I was already probing. Good idea searching the git log (in hindsight perhaps I ought to have queried the source for that character).
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<p>In <code>k9s</code> (kubernetes management tool) what is the PF column (for pods)? What does the Ⓕ value mean?</p>
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What is the PF field in k9s?
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# What is the PF field in k9s?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-11-13)

In `k9s` (kubernetes management tool) what is the PF column (for pods)? What does the Ⓕ value mean?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-11-13. Score: 7 | Accepted answer

The "PF" field refers to port forwarding.

You may setup port forwarding, ("shift-f" in pod view). This indicator probably means you have setup some port forwarding -- in my case, it prints some weird character.

Although to be honest ... I only figured it out, searching their git repository history .... Introduced here: <https://github.com/derailed/k9s/commit/f1111174aa8df815e25b0a029ba1465d3a855b49#diff-5b19eaab395254884c7dff045b0e50a599c29794e80a81fe42c9667450b6e9d4>

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Aha, so it wasn’t related to [Priority and Fairness](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/flow-control/); it is supposed to confirm my instrumentation rather than to indicate some misbehaviour of the workload that I was already probing. Good idea searching the git log (in hindsight perhaps I ought to have queried the source for that character).  

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