Improved failure reports on Red Hat OpenShift with the event-driven diagnostic operator

· Red Hat · Aug. 21, 2026, 1:51 p.m.
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This blog post presents an innovative tool—a event-based automatic first information report (FIR) collector—designed to enhance failure reporting and diagnostics in Red Hat OpenShift environments. The tool automatically captures critical system context during incidents, ensuring that logs necessary for root cause analysis are preserved even when emergency recovery actions occur. By automating data collection based on event triggers, it provides significant benefits for incident management, fills gaps left by existing observability tools, and supports multi-cluster environments. The post invites feedback and collaboration for further development, aiming to create a more user-friendly solution.
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