Kubernetes Troubleshooting: What to Check Before You Restart a Pod

Production incident. Pod is failing. Alerts are firing. The instinctive response is often: "Restart the pod and see if it comes back." Sometimes that restores service — but it can also destroy useful evidence. Before restarting, check these five things. 1. Describe the pod kubectl describe pod <pod-name> -n <namespace> Look at:...