Troubleshoot Kubernetes CrashLoopBackOff with incident context
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A Pod in CrashLoopBackOff is restarting after a container exits repeatedly.
The status tells you that a restart loop exists, but it does not identify one
universal cause. Memory limits, application errors, missing configuration, and
failed dependencies need different fixes.
This guide gives an operator a short path from symptom to evidence. kwatch can collect much of that context in an incident alert, but you should still verify the proposed cause against the workload.