diff --git a/src/renderer/components/kube-object/kube-object-details.tsx b/src/renderer/components/kube-object/kube-object-details.tsx
index 3a4261d5a8..82c748ecdd 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/kube-object/kube-object-details.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/kube-object/kube-object-details.tsx
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import { KubeObjectMenu } from "./kube-object-menu";
 import { KubeObjectDetailRegistry } from "../../api/kube-object-detail-registry";
 import logger from "../../../main/logger";
 import { CrdResourceDetails } from "../+custom-resources";
+import { KubeObjectMeta } from "./kube-object-meta";
 
 /**
  * Used to store `object.selfLink` to show more info about resource in the details panel.
@@ -178,6 +179,11 @@ export class KubeObjectDetails extends React.Component {
       }
     }
 
+    if (details.length === 0) {
+      // if we still don't have any details to show, just show the standard object metadata
+      details.push(<KubeObjectMeta key={object.getId()} object={object} />);
+    }
+
     return (
       <Drawer
         className="KubeObjectDetails flex column"