A 911 operations dashboard shows the count of Pending pods rising steadily. What does that trend most often indicate?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Pending means the scheduler has not found a home yet—usually the cluster is short on room or the pod asks for something no node can give. Rising Pending is a capacity red flag.
Full Explanation
Pods remain Pending when the scheduler cannot place them because of CPU/memory shortages, taints, affinity rules, PVC unbound states, or similar constraints. A rising Pending count is therefore a common capacity and fit signal. Completed Jobs, Service externalTrafficPolicy, and metrics-server scrape intervals are not the usual meaning of growing Pending queues.