Fairwinds Insights is for platform teams to implement Kubernetes standardization and policies that enable developers. View cluster heath, implement guardrails, control costs, and reduce security risks.
Fairwinds Insights was created for platform teams that need to enable developers on Kubernetes. The software uniquely solves this problem by implementing policies across the development lifecycle to standardize Kubernetes. It saves time, resources and frustration by enabling developers to create secure, cloud efficient and reliable applications.
Fairwinds Insights integrates into the development lifecycle to apply standardization with policy enforcement. Platform teams implement out of the box policies and customized policies. Code is scanned at the time of commit against policies. Any identified issues are prohibited from entering the cluster if they do not meet standards. Insights enables a self-service Kubernetes platform that reduces code review cycles saving both application development and platform teams time.
Using Fairwinds Insights, issues identified in the cluster can automatically create tickets with remediation advice for developers. This increases the code quality, reduces drift and increases development velocity. It can help organizations adopt Kubernetes faster and increase app release velocity that creates more opportunities to generate revenue.
Highlights
Policy and Guardrails: Insights includes hundreds of built-in policies, AI policy creation and integrations with open source policy engines like Fairwinds Polaris, OPA and Kyverno for customization. Policy and Kubernetes best practices are enforced at every stage of the development lifecycle.
Cost and Reliability: Kubernetes workload cost allocation provides visibility into costs incurred across multiple clusters, aggregations, and custom time periods. Kubernetes cost showback reports usage costs to finance teams, allocates to developers and tracks savings over time. Use actual AWS cloud bills to calculate Kubernetes costs by workload, namespace or label. Automated rightsizing helps maximize efficiency of CPU and memory to demonstrate responsible spending and prevent app crashes.
Security and Compliance: Fairwinds Insights continuous Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) security scanning helps DevSecOps make Kubernetes and containers secure. Includes container vulnerability scanning, image upgrade recommendations, multiple shift-left integrations, compliance mappings and evidence. Automated Fix PRs automatically fix 42% of Kubernetes misconfiguration, lowering the cost of achieving security and compliance standards.
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This listing uses a single pricing dimension. You pay per node, per month, for Fairwinds Insights EKS Edition. Your cost scales with the number of Kubernetes nodes you run. As you add nodes, your monthly charge rises in proportion; as you remove them, it falls. There are no separate tiers, instance sizes, or usage add-ons to choose from. The software covers Kubernetes cost optimization, governance, and security across your clusters under this same per-node rate.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What counts as one node for billing purposes?
A node is a worker machine in your Kubernetes cluster running on Amazon EKS. Each active node counts as one unit for the monthly charge. Every node the software monitors adds to your count, regardless of the workloads or containers running on it.
What happens to my bill when I add or remove nodes during the month?
Your monthly charge tracks the number of nodes you run. Adding nodes raises the charge in proportion to the count. Removing nodes lowers it. There are no separate tiers or size brackets, so each node is billed at the same per-node rate.
What capabilities does the per-node rate cover?
The per-node rate covers Kubernetes cost optimization, governance, and security across your clusters. This includes workload right-sizing, cost allocation by label or namespace, a policy library, compliance self-assessment, infrastructure-as-code scanning, and container vulnerability scanning. All these functions fall under the same per-node charge.
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