Kubernetes troubleshooting

Commands

• kubectl logs your_pod
• kubectl get events -A
• kubectl describe pod your_pod
• kubectl describe nodes, review conditions:

• Tools: kubectl top, K9s and crictl

Events

• FailedScheduling: Insufficient cpu, Insufficient memory, timed out waiting for the condition, unbound immediate PersistentVolumeClaims
• kubectl get events, OOMKilling, FailedKillPod, SuccessfulDelete, SuccessfulCreate, NoPods, Warning, Critical, NodeSysctlChange, FailedAttachVolume, FailedMount, UnAvailableLoadBalancer, FailedCreatePodSandBox, InvalidDiskCapacity, Scheduled, NetworkNotReady, Evict, Killing, SuccessfulReconcilied, FailedToUpdateEndpointSlices, BackendNotFound, FailedScheduling, ProvisioningFailed
• Kubernetes node events: Kubernetes node events, NodeNotSchedulable, NodeAllocatableEnforced, NodeHasNoDiskPressure, DiskPressure, NodeHasSufficientMemory, NodeHasSufficientPID, RegisteredNode, InvalidDiskCapacity, Starting, NodeReady, RemovingNode

Kubernetes components

Load Balancer

• UnAvailableLoadBalancer

Kubelet

• PLEG is not healthy

Related

• Readiness, Liveness, Readiness probe errored
• Reason: ProbeWarning
• Kubernetes Pod Disruptions
• Unable to connect to the server, ~/.kube/config
• DiskPressure
• CalculateExpectedPodCountFailed

Activities

• Review: https://learnk8s.io/troubleshooting-deployments

See also

• kubectl get events, OOMKilling, FailedKillPod, SuccessfulDelete, SuccessfulCreate, NoPods, Warning, Critical, NodeSysctlChange, FailedAttachVolume, FailedMount, UnAvailableLoadBalancer, FailedCreatePodSandBox, InvalidDiskCapacity, Scheduled, NetworkNotReady, Evict, Killing, SuccessfulReconcilied, FailedToUpdateEndpointSlices, BackendNotFound, FailedScheduling, ProvisioningFailed
• Kubernetes node events: Kubernetes node events, NodeNotSchedulable, NodeAllocatableEnforced, NodeHasNoDiskPressure, DiskPressure, NodeHasSufficientMemory, NodeHasSufficientPID, RegisteredNode, InvalidDiskCapacity, Starting, NodeReady, RemovingNode
• K8s troubleshooting: kubectl logs, kubectl top, kubectl get events -A, kubectl describe pod, Liveness, Readiness, Kubernetes events, Pulling image, OOMKilled, ProbeWarning, Reason, FailedScheduling, errImagePull, ImagePullBackOff, Kubelet conditions: MemoryPressure, DiskPressure, KubeletHasSufficientPID, KubeletReady, kubectl [ debug | attach | exec ] kubectl cluster-info dump, SimKube, KWOK