Fairwinds Blog

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3 minute read

| August 29, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 13.3-13.8 — the Latest Cost Updates

This month we’re happy to share some updates in Fairwinds Insights related to network and storage costs as well as other improvements and bug fixes. Read More

General

4 minute read

| August 18, 2023

KubeCrash Fall 2023: Multi-Cluster Deployments at Enterprise Scale

With KubeCon approaching fast (yes, November will be here before we know it), we’ve been preparing for KubeCrash, your cloud native warm-up! Read More

General

9 minute read

| August 17, 2023

Kubernetes in the Enterprise: Your Questions Answered

Recently, I joined an in-depth discussion about the state of Kubernetes in the Enterprise, courtesy ofCloud Native Now, bringing in the expertise from practitioners in the... Read More

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4 minute read

| August 16, 2023

Fairwinds Named a Cool Vendor in the Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Container Management

I’m very pleased and proud to announce that Fairwinds has been named in the 2023 Gartner Cool Vendor™ in Container Management report! We believe this is an honor for the... Read More

General

3 minute read

| July 25, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 12.16-13.2

This month we’re delighted to share some updates in Fairwinds Insights related to Prometheus metrics in addition to other improvements and bug fixes. Prometheus-metrics can... Read More

General

11 minute read

| July 18, 2023

Building a Kubernetes Platform: What You Need to Monitor in K8s and Why

Lots of people are talking about platforms, frequently talking about it as an IDP or internal developer platform. Essentially what this means is that you have a unified... Read More

General

6 minute read

| June 28, 2023

New Capabilities in Fairwinds Insights: Custom Fields and Issue Types

If you are managing development teams using Kubernetes, you need to be able to easily find, triage, and fix problems quickly. You likely already have existing tools in place... Read More

General

5 minute read

| June 20, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 12.11-12.15 & More

This month we’re excited to share some new capabilities in Fairwinds Insights in addition to other improvements and bug fixes. Last month we officially launched our new Costs... Read More

General

9 minute read

| May 30, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Basics Tutorial: How to Integrate Slack and Fairwinds Insights

Many organizations today use Slack, across teams, departments, countries, and even continents. Particularly useful in a remote or hybrid work environment, Slack improves... Read More

General

6 minute read

| May 23, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 12.3-12.10

This month, the Fairwinds Insights release notes include lots of helpful improvements and bug fixes in the Insights platform. We’re also very excited that our Costs page has... Read More

General

43 minute read

| May 19, 2023

9 Key Takeaways from a Platform Team's Panel Discussion on Kubernetes

If you’re thinking about building a Kubernetes platform that your developers can use to build applications, you need to know where to start, what questions to ask, and how to... Read More

General

11 minute read

| May 17, 2023

Goldilocks: An Open Source Tool for Recommending Resource Requests

Originally published October 2019; updated 2023 One of the questions that I get most frequently from our customers at Fairwinds is “How do we know what to set our resource... Read More

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