gke/ERR/2021_005

GKE nodes aren’t reporting connection issues to storage.google.com.

Product: Google Kubernetes Engine
Rule class: ERR - Something that is very likely to be wrong

Description

GKE node need to download artifacts from storage.google.com:443 when booting. If a node reports that it can’t connect to storage.google.com, it probably means that it can’t boot correctly.

Remediation

You can use the following filter to find matching log lines:

resource.type="k8s_node"
log_id("kubelet")
jsonPayload.MESSAGE:"Failed to connect to storage.googleapis.com"

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