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Workspace Cloudability
Categories Container Reporting
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 24, 2026

Option to get alerts about the "Inactive" cluster(s) in the container insights section

Hi Team ,

Having Option to get alerts about the "Inactive" cluster(s) in the container insights section would really help, since the container insights data is real-time & once we lose it, we can't get the historical data. Missing this data would impact our cost allocation across the clusters

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Chip Zoller
    Jul 29, 2026

    Clusters can sometimes go offline due to various factors which are transient, especially in edge environments. How long of a gap would you consider to be "a problem" and therefore be notified? Would you want or need a way to customize that interval?

  • Guest
    Jul 29, 2026

    Right now, if we want to know the status whether a cluster is working or not, we need to explicitly open this "monitor" tab inside the container to check the status of the cluster reporting (or) else through a custom report built showing the spend across all the clusters.

    So, it will be great if we can get some alerts (like in the case of anomaly detection), as soon as the container reporting stops from this cluster. This would be very useful because this container cost allocation data is real-time, once lost cannot be regained back. Also this notification helps in fixing the issue at the earliest

  • Guest
    Jul 29, 2026

    A cluster from which the container agent has stopped capturing the metrics (it can be any reason)

  • Admin
    Chip Zoller
    Jul 24, 2026

    What does an "inactive cluster" mean to you?