# Error: You need to specify CLUSTER\_NAME

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/error-you-need-to-specify-cluster-name/37545>\
**Category:** General Questions\
**Tags:** mysql, percona\
**Created:** [April 8, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/error-you-need-to-specify-cluster-name/37545 "2025-04-08T20:11:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![redzchris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@redzchris](https://forums.percona.com/u/redzchris)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/error-you-need-to-specify-cluster-name/37545/1 "2025-04-08T20:11:05Z")

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> root@tent-master-01:/home/myuser# kubectl get pods -n percona-mysql-ha -w  
> NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE  
> percona-cluster-proxysql-0 0/3 CrashLoopBackOff 27 (4m39s ago) 25m  
> percona-cluster-pxc-0 1/1 Running 1 (23m ago) 25m  
> percona-cluster-pxc-1 1/1 Running 0 25m  
> percona-cluster-pxc-2 1/1 Running 1 (23m ago) 24m  
> pxc-operator-7679ff5dfc-fpb45 1/1 Running 0 133m

> root@tent-master-01:/home/myuser# kubectl logs percona-cluster-proxysql-0 -n percona-mysql-ha -c proxysql  
> Error: You need to specify CLUSTER\_NAME

I am unable to start percona-cluster-proxysql-0. I am deploying it via helm and with Ansible. I have tried to specify the CLUSTER\_NAME in many different areas to no avail. From a manual perspective, how do you set this up?

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**Author:** ![anil.joshi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/anil.joshi/32/13100_2.png) [@anil.joshi](https://forums.percona.com/u/anil.joshi)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 7:53am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/error-you-need-to-specify-cluster-name/37545/2 "2025-04-18T07:53:20Z")

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@redzchris It seems you installing operator via some customise way.

Well you can check the insight of that crashing pod [**percona-cluster-proxysql-0**] to get more information like some before error lines or the container info. Do you have the deployment or cr.yaml file ?

```auto
kubectl describe pod percona-cluster-proxysql-0
kubectl logs percona-cluster-proxysql-0

```

We have a manual/guide about installing/setup of PXC operator under different flavours which you can explore here - [System requirements - Percona Operator for MySQL](https://docs.percona.com/percona-operator-for-mysql/pxc/System-Requirements.html#installation-guidelines)