kubectl get events

• kubectl get events
• kubectl get events -A
• kubectl get events -o yaml

• kubectl get events --sort-by=.metadata.creationTimestamp
• kubectl get events --sort-by=.metadata.creationTimestamp -A
• kubectl get events --sort-by='.lastTimestamp

• kubectl -n gitlab-runner get events --field-selector type!=Normal

kubectl get events -A | grep Warning
kubectl get events -A | grep Warning | egrep "FailedMount|FailedAttachVolume|Unhealthy|ClusterUnhealthy|FailedScheduling"

kubectl get events -A | grep Normal

Events examples

Warning

Unhealthy
FailedScheduling 
.../...

your_namespace        28s         Warning   FailedScheduling                  pod/kibana-kibana-654ccb45bd-pbp4r             0/2 nodes are available: 2 Insufficient cpu.

your_namespace         4m53s       Warning   ProbeWarning              pod/metabase-prod-f8f4b765b-h4pgs                                   Readiness probe warning:

your_namespace         30m         Warning   BackoffLimitExceeded      job/your-job27740460                           Job has reached the specified backoff limit

your_namespace         26m         Warning   Unhealthy                 pod/elasticsearch-master-1                                          Readiness probe failed: Waiting for elasticsearch cluster to become ready (request params: "wait_for_status=green&timeout=1s" )...

your_namespace        99s         Warning   BackOff                pod/elasticsearch-master-0                Back-off restarting failed container
your_namespace        108s        Warning   BackOff                pod/elasticsearch-master-1                Back-off restarting failed container

your_namespace        12m         Warning   PresentError           challenge/prod-admin-tls-cert-dzmbt-2545              Error presenting challenge: error getting clouddns service account: secret "clouddns-dns01-solver-svc-acct" not found

your_namespace 27m         Warning   OOMKilling         node/gke-you-pool4   Memory cgroup out of memory: Killed process 2768158 (python) total-vm:5613088kB, anon-rss:3051580kB, file-rss:65400kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:7028kB oom_score_adj:997

your_namespace 8m51s       Warning   FailedScheduling       pod/myprometheus-alertmanager-5967d4ff85-5glkh    running PreBind plugin "VolumeBinding": binding volumes: timed out waiting for the condition
default     4m58s       Normal    ExternalProvisioning   persistentvolumeclaim/myprometheus-alertmanager   waiting for a volume to be created, either by external provisioner "ebs.csi.aws.com" or manually created by system administrator

Solution: Install aws-ebs-csi-driver

default       107s        Warning   ProvisioningFailed     persistentvolumeclaim/myprometheus-server         (combined from similar events): failed to provision volume with StorageClass "gp2": rpc error: code = Internal desc = Could not create volume "pvc-4e14416c-c9c2-4d39-b749-9ce0fa98d597": could not create volume in EC2: UnauthorizedOperation: You are not authorized to perform this operation. Encoded authorization failure message: Goz6E3qExxxxx.../...

kube-system     9m44s       Warning   FailedMount               pod/kube-dns-85df8994db-v8qdg                           MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume "kube-dns-config" : failed to sync configmap cache: timed out waiting for the condition

kube-system     43m         Warning   ClusterUnhealthy          configmap/cluster-autoscaler-status                     Cluster has no ready nodes.

Normal

Started
Created
Pulled
Pulling
Scheduled
Killing
Evict
SandboxChanged
SuccessfulCreate - ReplicaSet
SuccessfulDelete
NodeNotSchedulable
RemovingNode

default     4s          Normal    Provisioning           persistentvolumeclaim/myprometheus-alertmanager   External provisioner is provisioning volume for claim "default/myprometheus-alertmanager"

Related: kubectl get pvc

ingress-nginx   53m         Normal    UpdatedLoadBalancer       service/nginx-ingress-controller                        Updated load balancer with new hosts
ingress-nginx   54m         Warning   UnAvailableLoadBalancer   service/nginx-ingress-controller                        There are no available nodes for LoadBalancer

Events

• BackOff
• Completed
• Created
• DeadlineExceeded
• Failed
• FailedAttachVolume
• FailedCreatePodSandBox
• FailedMount
• FailedKillPod
• FailedScheduling
• FailedToUpdateEndpointSlices
• Generated
• PresentError
• Pulled
• Pulling
• Requested
• SawCompletedJob
• Scheduled
• Started
• SuccessfulCreate
• SuccessfulDelete
• NoPods
• NodeHasNoDiskPressure
• UnAvailableLoadBalancer
• VolumeFailedDelete

Related

• kubectl top
• kubectl logs
• gcloud logging read resource.labels.cluster_name
• kubectl get events --help
• job-controller
• GCP Node logs
• gcloud logging read projects/yourproject/logs/kubelet
• kubectl describe nodes (conditions:)
• kubectl describe nodes | grep KubeletReady
• --event-ttl defines the amount of time to retain events, default 1h.

See also

• Kubernetes events, Kubernetes node events: [ Normal | Warning ], kubectl events, kubectl get events: BackOff, FailedMount, FailedAttachVolume, TaintManagerEviction, InvalidDiskCapacity, FailedScheduling, kubectl describe events, Unhealthy, conditions:, UpdatedLoadBalancer, BackoffLimitExceeded
• 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