How to Investigate Kubernetes Pods Evicted for Ephemeral Storage

Pods can be evicted when writable layers, logs, or temporary files consume node storage. Increasing persistent volume size may not help if the usage comes from ephemeral container storage or unbounded logs.

What to check

Review eviction events, node disk and inode pressure, container writable-layer usage, log growth, temporary directories, and ephemeral-storage requests and limits. Identify whether one workload or many contribute to the pressure.

Recommended next step

Set realistic resource requests and limits, control temporary-file and log retention, and monitor node capacity. Validate cleanup behavior under representative load before restoring evicted workloads.

How Informatix Systems can help

Informatix Systems provides Kubernetes and container platform operations. We can assess the affected setup, trace the likely cause, and help plan an implementation path. Contact us with the system involved, when the issue began, and non-sensitive error details.