How Fairwinds Insights Works

Once created, you have now started your 30 day trial.

• Make sure you have metrics-server installed in your cluster. <1 minute
• If you are already using VPA, add the flag --set goldilocks.installVPA=false to the helm command below. <1 minute

It takes only a few minutes depending on the size of your cluster to start seeing results.

Your dashboard will provide an overview of the findings. You can start going through the dashboard or review by priorities. 

Clicking into the priorities will take you to Action Items where you’ll see the list by priority and what requires fixing. 

You can click on the issue for a description of the problem and advice on how to remediate the problem.

Once you fix the issue, the field fixed will change from false to true.

When you first click into workloads, we will ask questions about your cloud provider. We’ll also ask what cost estimation strategy you want to implement - optimistic or conservative. You can read more about the different Kubernetes cost strategies here. 

You’ll want to know your instance type, cost per node, vCPUs and memory to customize your numbers. 

If you do not complete this, Fairwinds Insights can still provide you with findings and recommendations. You can update your cost settings at any time by simply clicking cost settings in the left corner of the workload dashboard.

You’ll get a view of your add-ons and what is up to date or requires upgrades.

Many organizations have internal and external compliance policies for reviewing their RBAC profiles. With Insights, we help you identify the most permissive roles and save time auditing your RBAC settings.

You can view your RBAC roles and bindings. You will see roles by severity to identify: 

• Roles able to view secrets and escalate their permissions
• Roles able to create, update, and delete objects
• Roles that are read-only

The Reports functionality allows you to dig deeper into each of the projects that are reviewing your cluster configurations. It also highlights where you may need to reinstall the agent. 

Reports also gives you a glimpse into the raw data returned by each tool from Fairwinds Insights. Fairwinds Insights automates the job of aggregating, normalizing, and de-duplicating findings, saving security and DevOps engineers time when running multiple open source tools.