Just had an issue with a pod getting OOM killed in Kubernetes. And of cause when that happens your first reaction is to increase the memory limit or request… But hold on… What does OOM killed mean in Kubernetes? There are two main reasons why this happens. Your pod is crazy and eats all the memory assigned to it. If this happens it will get OOM killed. You can see this if you go to your monitoring toolkit (Datadog, Grafana, etc.