Kubernetes Debugging Cheat Sheet/Sort cluster-wide events by time

Helpful for cluster-wide incident triage.

Section: Events and Conditions

Sort cluster-wide events by time

bash
bash
kubectl get events -A --sort-by=.metadata.creationTimestamp

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