[DO NOT MERGE] more debug logs

[ryan-mist]

Fixes #N/A

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How was this change tested?
Line 403 - number of launch templates:

{"level":"DEBUG","time":"2026-02-25T21:22:11.128Z","logger":"controller","caller":"instance/instance.go:405","message":"[DEBUG] number of LTs is 3","commit":"2fe1594-dirty","controller":"nodeclaim.lifecycle","controllerGroup":"karpenter.sh","controllerKind":"NodeClaim","NodeClaim":{"name":"default-psnhx"},"namespace":"","name":"default-psnhx","reconcileID":"f27d5894-a8d7-4797-8994-cc230fed2972"}

Line 473 - offerings:

{"level":"DEBUG","time":"2026-02-25T21:49:56.118Z","logger":"controller","caller":"instance/instance.go:473","message":"[DEBUG] r6g.16xlarge : offerings len is 12 and list is [{Zone:us-west-2a CapacityType:spot Price:1.1307 Available:false} {Zone:us-west-2a CapacityType:on-demand Price:3.2256 Available:false} {Zone:us-west-2d CapacityType:on-demand Price:3.2256 Available:true} {Zone:us-west-2d CapacityType:spot Price:0.5292 Available:true} {Zone:us-west-2-lax-1a CapacityType:spot Price:0 Available:false} {Zone:us-west-2-lax-1a CapacityType:on-demand Price:3.2256 Available:false} {Zone:us-west-2-lax-1b CapacityType:spot Price:0 Available:false} {Zone:us-west-2-lax-1b CapacityType:on-demand Price:3.2256 Available:false} {Zone:us-west-2c CapacityType:on-demand Price:3.2256 Available:true} {Zone:us-west-2c CapacityType:spot Price:1.1209 Available:true} {Zone:us-west-2b CapacityType:on-demand Price:3.2256 Available:true} {Zone:us-west-2b CapacityType:spot Price:1.0708 Available:true}]","commit":"27f8874-dirty","controller":"nodeclaim.lifecycle","controllerGroup":"karpenter.sh","controllerKind":"NodeClaim","NodeClaim":{"name":"default-fnt6n"},"namespace":"","name":"default-fnt6n","reconcileID":"adc85605-1d1f-4ffd-a647-63fdec46f16e"}

Line 474 - available offerings:

{"level":"DEBUG","time":"2026-02-25T21:49:56.118Z","logger":"controller","caller":"instance/instance.go:474","message":"[DEBUG] r6g.16xlarge : available offerings len is 6 and list is [{Zone:us-west-2d CapacityType:on-demand Price:3.2256 Available:true} {Zone:us-west-2d CapacityType:spot Price:0.5292 Available:true} {Zone:us-west-2c CapacityType:on-demand Price:3.2256 Available:true} {Zone:us-west-2c CapacityType:spot Price:1.1209 Available:true} {Zone:us-west-2b CapacityType:on-demand Price:3.2256 Available:true} {Zone:us-west-2b CapacityType:spot Price:1.0708 Available:true}]","commit":"27f8874-dirty","controller":"nodeclaim.lifecycle","controllerGroup":"karpenter.sh","controllerKind":"NodeClaim","NodeClaim":{"name":"default-fnt6n"},"namespace":"","name":"default-fnt6n","reconcileID":"adc85605-1d1f-4ffd-a647-63fdec46f16e"}

Line 478 - requirements:

{"level":"DEBUG","time":"2026-02-25T21:49:56.119Z","logger":"controller","caller":"instance/instance.go:478","message":"[DEBUG] the requirements are karpenter.k8s.aws/ec2nodeclass In [default], karpenter.k8s.aws/instance-category In [c m r t], karpenter.k8s.aws/instance-generation Exists >4, karpenter.sh/capacity-type In [spot], karpenter.sh/nodepool In [default], kubernetes.io/arch In [arm64], kubernetes.io/os In [linux], node.kubernetes.io/instance-type In [c6g.12xlarge c6g.16xlarge c6g.4xlarge c6g.8xlarge c6g.metal and 148 others]","commit":"27f8874-dirty","controller":"nodeclaim.lifecycle","controllerGroup":"karpenter.sh","controllerKind":"NodeClaim","NodeClaim":{"name":"default-fnt6n"},"namespace":"","name":"default-fnt6n","reconcileID":"adc85605-1d1f-4ffd-a647-63fdec46f16e"}

Line 478 - compatible offerings:

{"level":"DEBUG","time":"2026-02-25T21:49:56.119Z","logger":"controller","caller":"instance/instance.go:488","message":"[DEBUG] the 3 compatible offerings and are [{Zone:us-west-2d CapacityType:spot Price:0.5292 Available:true} {Zone:us-west-2c CapacityType:spot Price:1.1209 Available:true} {Zone:us-west-2b CapacityType:spot Price:1.0708 Available:true}]","commit":"27f8874-dirty","controller":"nodeclaim.lifecycle","controllerGroup":"karpenter.sh","controllerKind":"NodeClaim","NodeClaim":{"name":"default-fnt6n"},"namespace":"","name":"default-fnt6n","reconcileID":"adc85605-1d1f-4ffd-a647-63fdec46f16e"}

Line 488 - zonal subnets

{"level":"DEBUG","time":"2026-02-25T21:49:56.119Z","logger":"controller","caller":"instance/instance.go:518","message":"[DEBUG] zonal subnets are [{Key:us-west-2c ID:subnet-019f532353b7f9ddd Zone:us-west-2c ZoneID:usw2-az3 AvailableIPAddressCount:8186} {Key:us-west-2d ID:subnet-05554aec17a3027d0 Zone:us-west-2d ZoneID:usw2-az4 AvailableIPAddressCount:8186} {Key:us-west-2b ID:subnet-039b35bf467ee9c6f Zone:us-west-2b ZoneID:usw2-az2 AvailableIPAddressCount:8187}]","commit":"27f8874-dirty","controller":"nodeclaim.lifecycle","controllerGroup":"karpenter.sh","controllerKind":"NodeClaim","NodeClaim":{"name":"default-fnt6n"},"namespace":"","name":"default-fnt6n","reconcileID":"adc85605-1d1f-4ffd-a647-63fdec46f16e"}

Does this change impact docs?

• Yes, PR includes docs updates
• Yes, issue opened: #
• No

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Snapshot successfully published to oci://021119463062.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/karpenter/snapshot/karpenter:0-6a9df29de16a2a9654199b3060fa019fe3d49618.
To install you must login to the ECR repo with an AWS account:

aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 021119463062.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

helm upgrade --install karpenter oci://021119463062.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/karpenter/snapshot/karpenter --version "0-6a9df29de16a2a9654199b3060fa019fe3d49618" --namespace "kube-system" --create-namespace \
  --set "settings.clusterName=${CLUSTER_NAME}" \
  --set "settings.interruptionQueue=${CLUSTER_NAME}" \
  --set controller.resources.requests.cpu=1 \
  --set controller.resources.requests.memory=1Gi \
  --set controller.resources.limits.cpu=1 \
  --set controller.resources.limits.memory=1Gi \
  --wait