Some embodiments provide a method for monitoring a first service that executes in a Pod on a node of a Kubernetes deployment. At a second service executing on the node, the method monitors a storage of the node that stores core dump files to detect when a core dump file pertaining to the first service is written to the storage. Upon detection of the core dump file being written to the storage, the method automatically (i) generates an image of the first service based on data in the core dump file and (ii) instantiates a new container on the node to analyze the generated image in order to debug the first service.