Describe a pod and inspect event messages for failing probes.
Section: Readiness, Liveness, and Startup Probes
See probe failure events
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kubectl describe pod <pod> -n <namespace> | grep -A5 -i probeLearn the surrounding workflow
Compare similar commands or jump into common fixes when this command is part of a bigger troubleshooting path.
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Same sheet · prioritizing Readiness, Liveness, and Startup Probes
Inspect configured probes
View readiness, liveness, and startup probe definitions.
Run the probe command manually
Validate probe behavior inside the container context.
Port-forward and test HTTP probe locally
Verify whether the probe endpoint behaves as expected.
Call a probe endpoint after port-forward
Use curl locally against the forwarded health endpoint.
Describe image pull failures
Inspect ErrImagePull and ImagePullBackOff reasons.
Describe init container failure
Read events and termination details from the pod description.