Guides

How-to guides for StormForge

Try a sample application on your own cluster

Load-generating sample app for trying StormForge on your own cluster

Connect AI agents to StormForge with MCP

Hosted and local MCP server setup for AI agents

Try the StormForge sandbox

View-only StormForge environment with no installation required

Manage workloads

Add, delete, and restore workloads, or exclude them from optimization

Monitoring the health of StormForge

Monitor StormForge health with status metrics, logs, and component alerts

Configure applier alerts

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

How to use StormForge and Argo CD together

Argo CD configuration to ignore StormForge-managed fields

How to use StormForge and Flux together

Use a webhook-based apply method, and configure drift detection ignore rules for HPAs

StormForge Kustomize export

Automate committing patches to Git and deploying through CI

Import recommendation data into APM tools

Prometheus scrape job for importing recommendation data into APM tools

Kubernetes cost allocation

StormForge sends container usage metrics to our Costs Platform to attribute Kubernetes costs to namespaces and workloads

Transparent proxy configuration

StormForge configuration for a transparent proxy

Manage secrets with a third-party credential manager

StormForge Agent secrets managed by a third-party credential manager

Subscribe through AWS Marketplace

Set up StormForge pay-as-you-go billing in AWS Marketplace

Last modified April 28, 2026