diff --git a/pkg/k8sclient/k8sclient.go b/pkg/k8sclient/k8sclient.go
index a96113538..988621468 100644
--- a/pkg/k8sclient/k8sclient.go
+++ b/pkg/k8sclient/k8sclient.go
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ func (c *ClientInfo) GetPodContext(ctx context.Context, namespace, name string)
 	return c.Client.CoreV1().Pods(namespace).Get(ctx, name, metav1.GetOptions{})
 }
 
+// GetPodLive does a live API query for the pod, instead of using informers, for cases when a failure occurred, as to prevent a cache miss.
+func (c *ClientInfo) GetPodLive(namespace, name string) (*v1.Pod, error) {
+	return c.Client.CoreV1().Pods(namespace).Get(context.TODO(), name, metav1.GetOptions{})
+}
+
 // DeletePod deletes a pod from kubernetes
 func (c *ClientInfo) DeletePod(namespace, name string) error {
 	return c.Client.CoreV1().Pods(namespace).Delete(context.TODO(), name, metav1.DeleteOptions{})
diff --git a/pkg/multus/multus.go b/pkg/multus/multus.go
index 532ec1193..8d4f0e90d 100644
--- a/pkg/multus/multus.go
+++ b/pkg/multus/multus.go
@@ -558,9 +558,7 @@ func GetPod(kubeClient *k8s.ClientInfo, k8sArgs *types.K8sArgs, isDel bool) (*v1
 		// Try one more time to get the pod directly from the apiserver;
 		// TODO: figure out why static pods don't show up via the informer
 		// and always hit this case.
-		ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.TODO(), pollDuration)
-		defer cancel()
-		pod, err = kubeClient.GetPodContext(ctx, podNamespace, podName)
+		pod, err = kubeClient.GetPodLive(podNamespace, podName)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, cmdErr(k8sArgs, "error waiting for pod: %v", err)
 		}