POD-003.md

POD-003 Container restart count too high

Summary

A high container restart count indicates the container has restarted more than a threshold (e.g. 5 times), often due to repeated crashes or failing liveness probes. Root cause should be fixed to avoid availability impact and extra node load.

Severity

Warning

Example

N/A

Symptoms

• Report shows: Container <name> in pod <ns>/<pod> has <n> restarts
• kubectl get pod shows a high RESTARTS value

Resolution

1. Check pod events and container status: kubectl describe pod <ns>/<name>
2. Check current and previous container logs: kubectl logs <ns>/<name> -c <container> and --previous
3. Investigate OOM, overly strict startup/liveness probes, unavailable dependencies, or application bugs
4. Adjust resource limits, probe parameters, or application logic and redeploy

References

• Pod lifecycle
• Configure liveness, readiness and startup probes