# Specifying a Disruption Budget for your Application — Check the status of the PDB

> Use kubectl to check that your PDB is created. Assuming you don't actually have pods matching app: zookeeper in your namespace, then you'll see something like this Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl get poddisruptionbudgets ``` Bounded code example (

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## Knowledge

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Use kubectl to check that your PDB is created.

Assuming you don't actually have pods matching app: zookeeper in your namespace, then you'll see something like this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl get poddisruptionbudgets
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
NAME     MIN AVAILABLE   MAX UNAVAILABLE   ALLOWED DISRUPTIONS   AGE
zk-pdb   2               N/A               0                     7s
```

If there are matching pods (say, 3), then you would see something like this

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl get poddisruptionbudgets
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
NAME     MIN AVAILABLE   MAX UNAVAILABLE   ALLOWED DISRUPTIONS   AGE
zk-pdb   2               N/A               1                     7s
```

The non-zero value for ALLOWED DISRUPTIONS means that the disruption controller has seen the pods, counted the matching pods, and updated the status of the PDB.

You can get more information about the status of a PDB with this command

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl get poddisruptionbudgets zk-pdb -o yaml
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
apiVersion: policy/v1
kind: PodDisruptionBudget
metadata:
  annotations:
…
  creationTimestamp: "2020-03-04T04:22:56Z"
  generation: 1
  name: zk-pdb
…
status:
  currentHealthy: 3
  desiredHealthy: 2
  disruptionsAllowed: 1
  expectedPods: 3
  observedGeneration: 1
```

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