What are Workspaces

In the modern business environment, organizations manage a variety of different applications, each with its own resources, definitions, and configurations.

Internal users may find it challenging to navigate the complex relationships between these applications. Understanding the components that comprise an application, particularly its health status, operational efficiency, and identifying potential risks and growth opportunities, remains crucial.

Komodor Workspaces are built to address these challenges. By enabling users to define a workspace through existing configurations or manually selecting services, this platform offers a tailored, scoped perspective. Once a workspace is declared, it provides a comprehensive and focused view, ensuring that users are equipped with all the pertinent insights and crucial details regarding the workspace and its associated resources.

Common use cases

To gain the most out of Workspaces, We recommend a workspace to represent one of the following:

• A group of services which together comprise a system/application
  Create a workspace per a system (or - a group of microservices constructing a bigger application)

  This allows for correlation between related issues and cascading failures as well as understanding the overall availability of your system/application

• A Team / Business Unit
  Create a workspace that corresponds to a team's area of responsibility

  Provides a unified view of all the team/business unit responsibilities, easily understand the overall availability of all those services

• An Environment
  Create a workspace that corresponds to a particular environment

Workspace Overview

The Workspace Overview provides a comprehensive summary to help you understand the health, performance, and cost efficiency of your workspace. It consolidates critical insights and makes it easier to navigate and take action directly within the Komodor platform.

The Workspaces overview page consists of the following:

• Health data
  • Workload Health: Quickly identify active issues, highlight potential risks, and monitor performance trends for workloads in your workspace.
  • Infrastructure Health: Gain visibility into real-time infrastructure issues, reliability risks, and historical trends for better stability management.
     
• Add-ons Section
  Easily track add-on health with clear indications of open issues affecting your workspace.
   
• Cost Insights
  • Cost Summary: See detailed cost data for your workspace to understand spending.
  • Optimization Opportunities: Identify actionable steps to optimize costs and improve resource efficiency.
     

Create a Workspace

To create Workspaces click the New Workspace button

• First Workspace creation
  You'll find the New Workspace button at the bottom of the navigation bar 
  
  
• Any other workspace
  Open the list box on the top of the navigation toolbar
  

You’ll be redirected to the Workspace creation page

Specify a unique Workspace name, add an optional description, and scope (options described below)

Scoping a Workspace

You can create a Workspace both dynamically based on existing configurations such as labels, and namespaces as well as by manually selecting the relevant services.

• Dynamic scope
  Allows for the creation of Workspaces with a dynamic scope. Select a namespace or a label `key:value` pair and the Workspace scope will consist of workloads that are either part of the selected namespace or have the specified label across all of your clusters.

  Example usage:

  • A namespace
    
  • Label key:value pair
    
• Manual scope
  Allows manually selecting the relevant Workloads to include in the workspace scope

Note: It is not possible to combine both scoping methods, the scope must be either Manual or Dynamic

Editing / Deleting Workspaces

To edit or delete an existing Workspace, enter the Workspace and click the "Edit workspace" button on the top right

Best practices

• It is recommended to limit your workspace scope to up to 100 workloads, as exceeding this number could introduce a loading lag while entering the Overview page.

Workspaces Insights

Komodor provides insights in multiple categories; every insight is clickable and will open a drawer with additional information related to the specific insight.

The insights are primarily based on events and data from the past 14 days (except for best practices insights, which are derived from the current resource configurations).

• Availability
  
  
  
• Costs
  
• Best practices