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, UTM Stack support, and some useful improvements to our Global Admission Controller settings. Learn more about these new capabilities below.
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:
Current Activity: a detailed look at Incidents, CVE responses, and maintenance items.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!
Fairwinds Insights now integrates with UTM Stack, an open source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solution powered by real-time correlation and threat intelligence. This integration automatically creates incidents in UTM Stack based on Action Items from Fairwinds Insights and keeps them in sync as statuses change on those Action Items. When an action item is resolved, reopened, or fixed, the corresponding incident in UTM Stack reflects those changes in near real-time (checking for updates every 5 minutes), ensuring your team stays informed and aligned.
Follow these steps to set up the UTM Stack integration.
Note: For security and clarity, consider creating a dedicated bot or service account in UTM Stack for this integration rather than using personal credentials.
Once activated, new Action Items in Fairwinds Insights that match your selected policies are automatically turned into incidents in UTM Stack. Updates to Action Items, such as marking them as resolved or fixed are reflected in the corresponding UTM Stack incidents.
Example of Fairwinds Insights generated incidents in UTM Stack.
Example of detailed incident information in UTM Stack.
Read more about the UTM Stack integration in our Fairwinds Insights documentation.
Fairwinds Insights now allows you to configure admission control settings (the policies that govern what can be admitted into your clusters) at two levels:
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.
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!).
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 or our open source user group 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.