Guides

How-to guides for Optimize Live

Try a sample application on your own cluster

Experiment with Optimize Live using our load-generating Showcase app on your own cluster

Try the StormForge sandbox

Explore StormForge with view-only privileges - no installation required

Manage workloads

Learn how to add, delete, and restore workloads, as well as how to stop optimizing them

Monitoring the health of Optimize Live

View status metrics and log data for Optimize Live health insights

Configure applier alerts

Send HTTP webhook notifications when the StormForge Applier applies a recommendation to a workload

How to use Optimize Live and Argo CD together

Add stormforge to the list of known field managers

StormForge Kustomize export

Automate committing patches to Git and deploying through CI

Import recommendation data into APM tools

Create a Prometheus scrape job to get data that you can import into APM tools

Transparent proxy configuration

Learn how to configure StormForge for use with a transparent proxy

Manage secrets with a third-party credential manager

Learn how to create a StormForge Agent secret and enable third-party credential management

Optimize custom workloads using CRDs

Configure Optimize Live to detect and optimize workloads defined by Custom Resource Definitions

Optimize workloads owned by custom operators using CRDs

Configure how workloads managed by custom operators are optimized with Custom Resource Definitions

StormForge MCP server

Configure the StormForge CLI MCP server and connect an AI agent to StormForge

Subscribe through AWS Marketplace

Set up Optimize Live pay-as-you-go billing in AWS Marketplace

Last modified April 24, 2026