This is a clone of issue OCPBUGS-50587. The following is the description of the original issue:
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(Feel free to update this bug's summary to be more specific.)
Component Readiness has found a potential regression in the following test:

operator conditions etcd

Significant regression detected.
Fishers Exact probability of a regression: 100.00%.
Test pass rate dropped from 99.72% to 93.55%.

Sample (being evaluated) Release: 4.18
Start Time: 2025-02-04T00:00:00Z
End Time: 2025-02-11T16:00:00Z
Success Rate: 93.55%
Successes: 87
Failures: 6
Flakes: 0

Base (historical) Release: 4.17
Start Time: 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z
End Time: 2024-10-01T23:59:59Z
Success Rate: 99.72%
Successes: 355
Failures: 1
Flakes: 0

View the test details report for additional context.

The issue is currently being discussed via https://redhat-internal.slack.com/archives/C01CQA76KMX/p1739211100312459. It seems to specifically impact periodic-ci-openshift-cluster-control-plane-machine-set-operator-release-4.18-periodics-e2e-azure jobs which in part change instances / instance types during the job and appears to be impacting static pods.

4.19 Test Analysis

4.18 Test Analysis