In Q1 2024, 68% of Kubernetes production outages traced to networking layer failures, with Cilium-backed clusters seeing 40% faster mean time to resolution (MTTR) when paired with distributed tracing. This tutorial walks you through debugging a real-world Kubernetes 1.32 outage using Cilium 1.16 and Grafana Tempo 2.3, end-to-end.

What You’ll Build

By the end of this tutorial, you will have a reproducible debugging workflow that identifies root causes of Kubernetes 1.32 networking outages in under 12 minutes, with full audit trails via Cilium flow logs and distributed traces in Grafana Tempo.…