Intercept runs a comprehensive scan of your AKS clusters, analysing configuration, security posture, and resource efficiency using 7 days of Prometheus metrics. Get a detailed health report with prioritised recommendations to improve reliability, reduce costs, and align with Kubernetes best practices.
The AKS Assessment provides a comprehensive review of your Kubernetes clusters, with findings prioritised by severity and business impact.
Benefits of the assessment:
Protect your environment as we prevent containerised workloads from unauthorised access, attacks, and data breaches. Well-configured AKS clusters follow least-privilege access, network segmentation, and secrets management best practices. This strengthens customer trust, ensures regulatory compliance, and reduces the risk of container escape or lateral movement.
Configuration quality determines how predictable and maintainable your clusters remain over time. Following Kubernetes and Azure best practices for pod security, resource limits, health checks, and update strategies reduces firefighting and makes releases safer. That supports faster development cycles with fewer production surprises.
Protect both user experience and your budget with improved resource efficiency. Using 7 days of Prometheus data, the assessment identifies over-provisioned pods, under-utilised nodes, and scaling opportunities. This reduces monthly costs, prevents performance bottlenecks, and ensures clusters scale appropriately under changing demand.
The assessment covers monitoring setup, backup configurations, disaster recovery procedures, and update strategies. By following the right operational practices, you limit downtime, protect against data loss, and reduce the impact of node failures or zone outages on your applications and users.
Ensure you're getting maximum value from your AKS investment. The assessment identifies opportunities to reduce node pool costs, optimise storage classes, and eliminate unused resources, all while maintaining performance and availability targets.
Confirm cluster scope and verify that Prometheus monitoring has been collecting metrics for at least 7 days. Set up read-only access for assessment tooling.
Run automated scans using Kubernetes security and configuration checkers, combined with Prometheus query analysis for resource utilisation patterns and right-sizing opportunities.
Translate raw findings into clear priorities across security, cost, reliability, and operations. Calculate the business impact and potential cost savings to clarify what to tackle first.
Receive a comprehensive health report with severity distribution, area-by-area analysis, right-sizing recommendations, security findings, and detailed remediation steps with five priority actions.
Once the assessment is completed, Kubernetes consultants will discuss the results with you in a follow-up meeting. If desired, we can assist with implementing the necessary changes.
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