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Every Kubernetes engineer knows the feeling. kubectl get pods shows CrashLoopBackOff or OOMKilled, and now you're deciding between five plausible causes with a describe output that could mean any of them.
The problem isn't a lack of information, it's that troubleshooting guides are written to cover every possible cause at once. You end up reading through sections that don't apply to you just to find the one that does. And the causes genuinely do vary, an OOMKilled pod might have a limit that's simply too low, or it might be leaking memory over time, and telling those two apart requires different follow-up checks entirely.
PodTriage takes a different approach: pick your pod's status (CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, ImagePullBackOff, Pending, Evicted, or a stuck ContainerCreating/Terminating pod), or paste your kubectl describe pod output and let it auto-detect the status for you. From there it asks 2-3 targeted questions, things like whether kubectl logs --previous shows an actual error or comes back empty, built from real Kubernetes failure signatures. The output is one plain-English diagnosis, not a list of maybes.
It also runs entirely client-side. Pasted describe output, including internal hostnames and namespaces, is pattern-matched locally and never sent to a server.
I break down how the whole flow works, plus the exact kubectl commands worth knowing before you start, here: https://devencyclopedia.com/tools/podtriage
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