This morning I have noticed we have been having some issues causing pod restarts. After digging into it I think it is related to linkerd pods getting evicted because the prometheus pod in that namespace is running very high. It has gotten into a restart loop where I had to delete the WAL files to …

Issues with prometheus getting evicted due to memory

mmclane October 7, 2025, 2:36pm 5

Ah.. and we did just scale up our infra yesterday. That kinda makes sense.

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