By Bhawani Singh7 min read
Pod Startup Forensics: The Problem
Why slow Kubernetes pod startups undermine autoscaling, CI/CD, and incident response, and why Events and kubelet telemetry cannot identify the delayed phase.
Series · 7 posts
Pod Startup Forensics
A 5-part series diagnosing what actually makes Kubernetes pod startup slow, going past kubectl events and kubelet SLI metrics to trace which pod, which phase, and why.
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By Bhawani Singh5 min read
Pod Startup Forensics: The Tooling Gap
Why existing eBPF tools, continuous profilers, and APM platforms can't provide a durable pod-startup timeline that joins lifecycle records to kernel evidence.
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By Bhawani Singh6 min read
Pod Startup Forensics: Joining Lifecycle Events to Syscall Evidence
A design for retaining pod-startup evidence after deletion by putting Kubernetes lifecycle records and eBPF syscall observations on the same time axis.
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By Bhawani Singh6 min read
Pod Startup Forensics: The Architecture
How the CLI resolves pod owners and phases, the eBPF tracer captures syscall evidence, and the exporter joins both into a verified startup timeline.
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By Bhawani Singh5 min read
Pod Startup Forensics: Surviving Deletion
How the profiler retains pod-startup evidence after deletion, verified by reconstructing a deleted three-pod Tekton PipelineRun with `--timeline`.
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By Bhawani Singh7 min read
Pod Startup Forensics: Closing the Gap
Correlating socket syscalls and kubelet probe attempts into the merged timeline, then fixing a real cgroup-attribution bug that left most of those events unresolved.
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By Bhawani Singh12 min read
Pod Startup Forensics: Closure and What's Next
Closing the series: what six parts proved, the two scaling questions still untested, and the remaining exec-probe and production-kernel boundaries.