Agent Kubernetes Events and Pod Health

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## TL;DR

Kubernetes events and pod health fields are frequent agent lookup targets for explaining crashes, failed scheduling, probe failures, and rollout regressions.

## Core Explanation

Agents debugging Kubernetes workloads should inspect Pod phase, conditions, container statuses, probes, and recent events before changing manifests. These signals often explain whether the problem is scheduling, image pull, startup, readiness, or runtime failure.

The safe workflow is read-first. Agents should connect events to deployment history and controller state before recommending restarts, rollbacks, or manifest edits.

## Source-Mapped Facts

- Kubernetes pod lifecycle documentation describes Pod phase as a high-level summary of where a Pod is in its lifecycle. ([source](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-lifecycle/))
- Kubernetes probe documentation says the kubelet can optionally perform liveness, readiness, and startup probes on containers. ([source](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/liveness-readiness-startup-probes/))
- Kubernetes debugging documentation says kubectl describe pod shows information about a Pod and recent events. ([source](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-application/debug-running-pod/))

## Further Reading

- [Kubernetes Pod Lifecycle](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-lifecycle/)
- [Kubernetes Liveness, Readiness, and Startup Probes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/liveness-readiness-startup-probes/)
- [Kubernetes Debug Running Pods](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-application/debug-running-pod/)