https://support.tools/tags/event-logging/Recent content in Event Logging on Support ToolsHugoen-USThu, 13 Oct 2022 09:30:00 -0500https://support.tools/post/kubernetes-events-how-to-keep-historical-data-of-your-cluster/Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:30:00 -0500https://support.tools/post/kubernetes-events-how-to-keep-historical-data-of-your-cluster/<h2 id="kubernetes-events-how-to-keep-historical-data-of-your-cluster">Kubernetes Events: How to Keep Historical Data of Your Cluster</h2> <p>Are you running a Kubernetes cluster in production? If so, you&rsquo;ve likely encountered unexpected issues that can disrupt your applications. Recently, I had a production application POD crash, and it took me hours to discover that it was OOMKilled. Surprisingly, I couldn&rsquo;t find relevant information when running the kubectl event command.</p> <p>I later discovered that Kubernetes only retains event history for a mere 1 hour by default. While you can customize this by tweaking the kube-apiserver with a special flag, most clusters stick with the default setting:</p>