Kubernetes Event Disappears After 60mins

Problem

  • Kubernetes Event Disappears After 60mins

  • Storing Kubernetes Events Persistently

Environment

  • Platform9 Managed Kubernetes - All Versions

Answer

  • By default, Kubernetes events have a life span of 1-hour duration for easing the burden on ETCD, which is noted in this upstream feature request. This default value of 1 hour is customizable with kube-apiserver flag --event-ttl <duration> flag.

  • To persistently store events, there are upstream projects like Eventrouter. But note that this project is not directly maintained by Platform9.

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