County engineers suspect a memory leak in the permits API and need…

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County engineers suspect a memory leak in the permits API and need to identify which pods are consuming abnormal memory right now. Which approach fits?

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Run kubectl top pods (optionally scoped to the namespace) to compare live memory usage across pods when metrics are available. — kubectl top pods is like walking the server room with a thermal camera for memory—hot pods stick out so you can chase the leak.

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Delete the Default StorageClass to force pods to report memory in events.

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Use kubectl drain on random nodes to reveal which pods hold leaked memory.

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Inspect only Ingress annotations, which store per-pod RSS samples.

County engineers suspect a memory leak in the permits API and need to identify which pods are consuming abnormal memory right now. Which approach fits?

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