Insights

Insights are automated, pre-built checks that evaluate your cloud resources against established best practices. Unlike policies, which you define yourself, insights are maintained by Troposphere and updated as provider recommendations evolve.

Categories#

Each insight belongs to one of four categories:

• Security – identifies risks such as public access, missing encryption at rest, or open network ports.
• Cost – flags spending patterns that may indicate inefficient or unexpected resource usage.
• Reliability – highlights resilience and availability concerns in resource configuration.
• Best Practice – catches hygiene issues such as missing tags, outdated resource types, or non-standard naming.

Insight Results#

When an insight runs against a resource, it produces one of four results:

• Pass – the resource meets the recommendation.
• Fail – the resource does not meet the recommendation and should be reviewed.
• Error – the check could not be completed, usually due to insufficient permissions.
• Not Applicable – the check does not apply to this resource type or configuration.

Remediation#

Each failing insight includes remediation steps that describe what to change and why. These steps are provider-specific, giving you actionable guidance you can apply directly in your cloud console or infrastructure code.