Infrastructure
Know which pod broke it,and which deploy shipped it.
Pods, nodes and deploys sit next to the services they run. When checkout starts crash-looping, you see the pod, its version and the failing request together.
cluster prod-eu · 3 nodes · 12 pods
node-a
node-b
node-c
checkout · v2.14
checkout-7f9c
- status
- crash
- restarts
- 14
- memory
- 91%
cpu96%
memory91%
In CrashLoopBackOff since deploy v2.14. It runs out of memory at boot and has restarted 14 times. The last trace shows the config loader allocating 1.8 GiB.
Click a pod or pick a deploy. The crash follows v2.14 around, whichever node it lands on.
Fewer kubectl commands per outage.
The routine you know by heart, and the shorter version.
Today
5 steps · 3 tools- 1kubectlget pods, spot the CrashLoopBackOff
- 2kubectldescribe pod, read the events
- 3kubectllogs --previous, scroll to the stack trace
- 4ArgoCDfind which sync shipped this image
- 5Grafanacheck whether memory was the limit
With FerrisTrace
2 steps · 1 tool- 1FerrisTraceclick the red pod
- 2FerrisTraceread deploy, restarts, memory and last trace on one card
You read one card instead of running five commands.
What the cluster view shows.
- Pods by node and serviceState, restarts, CPU and memory, with unhealthy pods in red and amber.
- Version on every podPut two deploys side by side and see which one the errors follow.
- Pod in every traceSpans carry the pod, node and deployment, so you can filter traces by any of them.
- Alerts that name the podAlerts name the pod and the deploy involved, next to the metric that fired.
- Any clusterManaged or on-premise, it works wherever the OpenTelemetry Collector runs.
- GitOps readySelf-host it from the Kustomize manifests and let ArgoCD deploy it with your apps.
The rest of FerrisTrace.
- Traces, logs & metricsFollow one request from the click to the database.Learn more
- Incident responseFrom the first alert to the postmortem, on one timeline.Learn more
- AI observabilityWhat each LLM call cost, and how long it took.Learn more
- AI agentsAgents investigate with scoped FerrisKey tokens.Learn more
Put your pods next to your traces.
Point an OpenTelemetry Collector at FerrisTrace and your pods show up on the map.