Troubleshoot·Last Verified: 2026-07-14
Startup & Crash Failures
Diagnose applications crashing immediately upon launch or exceeding memory limits.
Symptom
The deployment fails with error code CONTAINER_CRASH_LOOP or OOM_KILLED.
What it means
The container started, but the process exited with a non-zero exit code or was terminated by the kernel.
Most likely causes
- Missing environment variable configurations (e.g., database connection string missing).
- Out of Memory: The application exceeded the allocated memory boundaries (e.g. 512MiB on the Free Plan).
How to diagnose it
Check the container exit codes via logs:
Fetch container crashes
kubeletto logs my-service --tail 100Was this helpful?