When outages cost you tens of thousands of dollars each minute, pinpointing the source of disruptions as quickly as possible becomes mission-critical. This is not a time for finger-pointing and hastily assembled war rooms searching for that needle in the haystack. You need simple, intelligent, trustworthy Internet health information to expedite your incident detection.

At PagerDuty, our purpose is to empower teams with the time and efficiency to build the future. That means that our own teams are constantly building and relentlessly innovating to help organizations drive transformative change in the way they operate.

Maybe you’re still using monolithic applications, built and refined over many years. You understand that shifting to microservices or containerized architectures is a huge and daunting task. You’re probably grappling with the limitations of legacy systems—maybe they’re slow, tough to update, or can’t scale as you’d like. And you’re likely using more traditional IT monitoring tools or even some cloud observability tools.

As more organizations embrace containerized applications, Kubernetes has emerged as the leading platform for orchestrating these containers. However, its complexity, combined with the inevitable reality of IT incidents, demands a well-defined strategy for managing disruptions. This article introduces Kubernetes incident management, describes common Kubernetes errors, and provides practical guidance to efficiently handle incidents.