Where Prometheus Fails: Catching Kubernetes Restarts in Real Time

Standard Prometheus alerts are great for capacity planning, but they are too slow to catch crash logs in high-churn Kubernetes environments. Here is why and how I built Kivert to solve it.

June 21, 2026 · 4 min · Rohan Prabhu

Kubernetes Init Containers: What the Docs Don't Tell You

Init containers seem simple: they run in order, they finish, and your app starts. But in production, resource shadowing, restart loops, and silent deadlocks can easily trigger an on-call page.

June 17, 2026 · 9 min · Rohan Prabhu