A municipal SRE dashboard highlights elevated container restart counts on several pods. What do persistently high restart counts most strongly indicate?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Restarts are the cluster's way of saying the app keeps falling over. A climbing restart counter is a stability smoke alarm—go find why the process dies.
Full Explanation
The kubelet restarts containers according to the restart policy when they exit or fail probes, incrementing restart counts. Sustained high counts signal crash loops, probe failures, or bad configuration rather than healthy steady state. Reclaim policies, HPA minima, and RoleBindings address different concerns and do not explain elevated restart counters by themselves.