Unresponsive Dashboard Due to High Resource Usage

The Kubernetes dashboard became unresponsive due to high resource usage caused by a large number of requests.

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What Happened

The Kubernetes dashboard was overwhelmed by too many requests, consuming excessive CPU and memory resources.

Diagnosis Steps

1Checked resource usage of the dashboard pod using kubectl top pod.
2Found that the pod was using more resources than expected due to a large number of incoming requests.

Root Cause

The dashboard was not scaled to handle the volume of requests.

Fix/Workaround

• Scaled the dashboard deployment to multiple replicas to handle the load.
• Adjusted resource requests and limits for the dashboard pod.

Lessons Learned

Ensure that the Kubernetes dashboard is properly scaled to handle expected traffic.

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