_cni_repair_pods_repaired_total</code> metric.</p><h2 id=diagnose-pod-start-up-failure>Diagnose pod start-up failure</h2><p>A common issue with the CNI plugin is that a pod fails to start due to container network set-up failure.
Typically the failure reason is written to the pod events, and is visible via pod description:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>$ kubectl describe pod POD_NAME -n POD_NAMESPACE
</code></pre><p>If a pod keeps getting init error, check the init c