Events

kubectl describe ptahschema orders prints these under the status, and they are the fastest way to see what the operator has just done. They are diagnostic text: read them to understand, and match on Conditions to decide. Condition reasons is the interface for deciding, and says why.

An Event is recorded on the resource a person would look at, which is not always the one the operator was working on: an approval that went stale carries the Event, because that is the object whose author has to act.

Event messages are bounded. A failure long enough to be truncated is recorded in full on the resource’s own status and in the operation’s Job.

Reason	Type	Recorded on	What it says
ApplyOutcomeUnknown	Warning	PtahSchema	An Apply ended with no proof of whether it changed the database, so a read-only observation starts to establish what happened.
ApprovalAccepted	Normal	PtahSchema	An authenticated approval was accepted for the current immutable plan.
ApprovalRequired	Normal	PtahSchema	The current immutable plan needs an approval before anything applies it.
ApprovalRevoked	Warning	PtahSchema	The recorded approval became invalid before the Apply Job was created, so no Job was created.
ApprovalStale	Warning	PtahSchemaApproval	This approval no longer matches the plan it was written for, and will not be consumed.
ArtifactVerificationRefused	Warning	PtahSchema	Verification refused the resolved artifact, so no plan is produced from it.
ExecutionBindingChanged	Warning	PtahSchema, PtahMigration	The runtime identity the evidence was produced under was retired. A schema closes the approval boundary and refreshes read-only; a migration discards the operation claim.
LeaseContinuityLost	Warning	PtahSchema	Database lock ownership was not continuous, so the result it covered is discarded and the proof restarts.
MigrationJobCleanupDeferred	Warning	PtahMigration	A Job’s cleanup could not be scheduled, so the Job keeps its own deadline rather than relying on one.
MigrationRunFinished	Normal or Warning	PtahMigration	An Apply finished and the message names what it did. The type follows the outcome: Applied and UpToDate are Normal, and Failed, Partial and Unknown are Warnings.
MigrationRunUncertain	Warning	PtahMigration	A migration run ended without establishing what it committed, and the resource records that until something resolves it.
OperationCompleted	Normal	PtahSchema	An operation finished and its result was accepted.
OperationFailed	Warning	PtahSchema, PtahMigration	An operation failed. The message carries the failure.
OperationRetried	Warning	PtahMigration	An attempt failed and another will follow. The message names the attempt number.
OperationStarted	Normal	PtahSchema, PtahMigration	A Job was created for the named operation.
PlanStale	Warning	PtahSchema	The plan stopped matching what it was computed against, so nothing applies it.
ProtectedTableRefused	Warning	PtahSchema	A plan would change a table spec.policy.protectedTables fences off, so no plan is published.
ResultReadTimedOut	Warning	PtahSchema, PtahMigration	Reading an operation’s result took longer than the bound it is given.
TargetLockReleaseOwed	Warning	PtahMigration	The database lock was not released, and the release the claim owes will be retried.
UnresolvedRunDiscarded	Warning	PtahMigration	Deleting this resource discarded the record of a run nobody accounted for. The message names the outcome, the version, and the database.
VerificationPolicyInvalidated	Warning	PtahSchema	The verification policy stopped matching the plan, so artifact and plan verification were invalidated.

A Warning is not always a fault

Most of these say the operator refused to proceed, which is the behavior they are there for: ProtectedTableRefused, ApprovalRevoked and PlanStale are each a decision not to change a database on evidence that no longer holds.

The ones that ask for a person are MigrationRunUncertain, ApplyOutcomeUnknown and TargetLockReleaseOwed: each says something about the database is not yet established, and each has a page saying what settles it – the mutation lifecycle for the first two, and Operations for the lock.