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| 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

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| 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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11 minute read

| May 17, 2023

Goldilocks: An Open Source Tool for Recommending Resource Requests

One of the questions that I get most frequently from our clients at Fairwinds is “How do we know what to set our resource requests and limits to?” Goldilocks is a Kubernetes... Read More

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4 minute read

| April 28, 2023

How to Lean into the Good and Mitigate Risk When Adopting Front-Edge Technology

Over the course of my career, I’ve primarily worked with front-edge technology. It can be a thrilling experience — thrilling good, and thrilling scary! The common thread is a... Read More

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6 minute read

| April 18, 2023

Fairwinds Insights Release Notes 11.12-12.2: Spotlight on Automated Fix PRs

This month’s Fairwinds Insights release notes offer a number of bug fixes and also details of our latest enhancements to Automated Fix Pull Requests (PRs) and our new NSA... Read More

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5 minute read

| March 29, 2023

Fix Your Kubernetes Misconfigurations Faster with Automated Fix Pull Requests

We're excited to announce the launch of our latest Fairwinds Insights feature, Automated Fix Pull Requests (PRs). You can automatically fix many Kubernetes misconfigurations... Read More

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