Best Of 2025: Report Details Raft Of Kubernetes Management Challenges
Cloud Native Now, December 11,2025
An analysis of thousands of incidents involving Kubernetes clusters finds IT teams are spending 34 workdays per year resolving issues, with 79% of those incidents stemming from recent system changes.
The report, conducted by Komodor, a provider of a platform for managing Kubernetes clusters, also finds more than 60% of the time spent managing Kubernetes clusters is spent on troubleshooting issues, while only 20% of incidents being resolved without escalation.
More troubling still, more than 65% of workloads run under half their requested CPU or memory, suggesting that wasted spending on the infrastructure required to run Kubernetes clusters is exceedingly high. A full 82% of the Kubernetes workloads are overprovisioned, compared to 11% that are underprovisioned, the report finds. Komodor estimates almost 90% of organizations are also overspending on cloud resources, with capacity utilization often falling below 80%. Well more than a third of IT teams (37%) have a need to rightsize 50% or more of their workloads.