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Production Pods Were Restarting Randomly
A production incident involving intermittent connection failures and pod restarts under normal traffic patterns.
Situation
You're the on-call engineer at a SaaS platform. Production pods are restarting intermittently — not crashing, just cycling. Users are hitting sporadic 502s. The Kubernetes dashboard shows restarts climbing, but resource metrics look normal. No recent deploys.
Stakes
- Users are seeing failures in real time
- Logs are noisy and hard to read
- Leadership is asking for answers
What do you do first?