We found the root-cause event an hour after the postmortem started. Can Kubernetes events be treated as an operational signal at all?

Best-effort objects, one-hour TTL, deduplicated by count, invisible unless shipped out. Events narrate scheduling and lifecycle decisions; treating them as durable records is the expensive mistake.

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