Fairwinds Insights Release Notes: Customer Dashboard

Over the last couple of months, we’ve been working on making several significant updates to Fairwinds Insights. We’ve delivered some great new functionality that our Insights customers will definitely benefit from, including a new Customer Dashboard for Managed Services and some useful improvements to our Global Admission Controller settings. Learn more about these new capabilities below.

Customer Dashboard

Fairwinds is excited to announce the roll out of our new Customer Dashboard for our Managed Services customers, which is designed to give your team a comprehensive view into your Kubernetes clusters that’s integrated directly into Fairwinds Insights. The key components of the dashboard include:

Image Vulnerabilities: a quick glance of the number of critical and high vulnerabilities for Fairwinds and Managed Services customers.

With this new dashboard, Managed Services customers will have the transparency and operational clarity to stay informed and in control of their Kubernetes clusters. Login to Fairwinds Insights to check out your dashboard today!

More Flexible Policy Enforcement

Fairwinds Insights now allows you to configure admission control settings (the policies that govern what can be admitted into your clusters) at two levels:

Per-Cluster Settings

• You can customize admission controller behavior (such as blocking risky workloads, enforcing resource limits, or restricting privilege escalation) specifically for each individual Kubernetes cluster.
• Useful if your clusters serve different environments (for example, dev vs. prod) or teams with varying risk profiles.

Org-Wide Default Settings

• You can define a global default policy that applies to all clusters, which can help you maintain consistency or enforce org-wide security baselines.
• Clusters without a custom config will inherit these defaults.

Customized enforcement gives you more control without requiring you to rewrite policy YAMLs for every cluster. Org-wide settings also mean less configuration drift and simpler compliance. As you manage more clusters, these new Insights capabilities mean you don’t have to micromanage policies for each one unless you want to.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Here are just a few of the enhancements and fixes that enable some of our bigger updates described above (and more on the way! Stay tuned!). 

• Improve CVE report
• Add Customer Dashboard support
• Trigger vulnerabilities sync when users access the Vulnerabilities page
• Create admission settings for each org
• Add utility function to log Go runtime and environment variables
• API to download a CSV with policies enforced by Insights
• Jira webhook support
• New Feature: Ticket Additional Descriptions
• Add support for team-management using AppGroups (beta)
• New Feature: Organizations may now enable require re-authentication for owner actions
• New Feature: CVE Audit Log Monthly Report Email
• Fix a bug where not all labels from Jira were pulled
• Add new combo-box fields for Jira ticket provider
• Add auto-close code scan action items
• Increase CVE audit log retention

Questions About Fairwinds Insights or Kubernetes?

Please reach out to us with any questions about Fairwinds Insights or how you can manage Kubernetes at scale without putting additional strain on your internal development and operations teams. We’d be happy to walk through any questions you have about the latest capabilities in Fairwinds Insights to help you take advantage of the new functionality we’re building. Please also consider joining the Fairwinds Community on Slack as well.

If you don’t want to spend time managing Kubernetes in-house, we also provide Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service, a people-led service that builds, delivers, and maintains mission-critical Kubernetes infrastructure.

To stay up to date with Fairwinds Insights updates, read our release notes.