Tools Practical By Samson Tanimawo, PhD Published May 14, 2026 4 min read

tmux for On-Call Engineers

tmux split-pane for parallel investigation.

Splits

Pane 1: kubectl. Pane 2: logs. Pane 3: dashboard. Pane 4: notes.

Single screen view of the investigation.

tmux save-buffer keeps notes.

Detach and re-attach across SSH sessions.

tmate or tmux pair-programming for cross-team incident response.

Two engineers see the same panes.