# Wave

> Kubernetes Day 2 operations platform by STCLab. Reduces cloud costs 30-40%, prevents OOM kills, automates scaling and right-sizing with ML. AWS EKS Service Ready Partner.

## Documentation
- [Introduction](https://wavek8s.com/docs/introduction): What Wave does and core concepts
- [Getting Started](https://wavek8s.com/docs/quick-start): Installation and initial setup
- [Architecture](https://wavek8s.com/docs/architecture): System design and components
- [CRD Mode](https://wavek8s.com/docs/crd-mode): Manage Wave Autoscale settings as Kubernetes CRDs in Git - Console vs CRD Mode, the CRD kinds, and ArgoCD integration
- [Helm Values & Environment Variables](https://wavek8s.com/docs/helm-values-environment-variables): Helm chart values and environment variable reference

## Documentation by sub-brand
- [Wave Autoscale Docs](https://wavek8s.com/docs/wave-autoscale): Autopilot, Smart Sizing, and core scaling features
- [Wave Sizing Docs](https://wavek8s.com/docs/wave-sizing): Container right-sizing and resource recommendations
- [Wave Karpenter Docs](https://wavek8s.com/docs/wave-karpenter): Karpenter dashboard, node warmup, and Spot placement
- [Wave Flow Docs](https://wavek8s.com/docs/wave-flow): Traffic shaping and priority-based routing
- [Wave Diagnosis Docs](https://wavek8s.com/docs/wave-diagnosis): Incident-first diagnosis grouped by Failures, Waste, and Capacity
- [PV Lifecycle](https://wavek8s.com/docs/additional-features/pv-lifecycle/overview): PV capacity forecasting, auto-expansion, and cleanup
- [Alerts](https://wavek8s.com/docs/additional-features/alerts/overview): Configurable alerting for anomalies and thresholds

## Solutions
- [Cost Optimization](https://wavek8s.com/solutions/cost-optimization): Reduce idle nodes, orphaned storage, over-provisioned resources
- [Scaling & Sizing Reliability](https://wavek8s.com/solutions/scaling-sizing-reliability): End HPA/VPA conflicts, ML-driven autoscaling
- [Reliability & Capacity](https://wavek8s.com/solutions/reliability-capacity): OOM prevention, capacity forecasting, cascading failure protection
- [Karpenter in Production](https://wavek8s.com/solutions/karpenter-in-production): Dashboard, node warmup, Spot workload placement
- [Priority Traffic Control on Istio](https://wavek8s.com/solutions/priority-traffic-control-istio): 4-tier priority shaping, virtual waiting room

## Features
- [Autopilot](https://wavek8s.com/features/autopilot): ML-driven HPA that reacts in seconds
- [Autopilot Scheduler](https://wavek8s.com/features/autopilot-scheduler): Schedule-aware scaling policies
- [Min/Max Recommendation](https://wavek8s.com/features/min-max-recommendation): Data-driven HPA boundary suggestions
- [Smart Sizing](https://wavek8s.com/features/smart-sizing): In-place pod resizing without restarts
- [Realtime Smart Sizing](https://wavek8s.com/features/realtime-resizing): Smart Sizing's automatic apply path — applies recommendations to running pods in-place via the Kubernetes resize subresource (no restart, no rollout), or via manifest patch on the next rollout
- [Wave Flow](https://wavek8s.com/features/wave-flow): Traffic shaping and priority-based routing
- [NetFunnel Integration](https://wavek8s.com/features/netfunnel-integration): Virtual waiting room for traffic spikes
- [Cluster Resource Forecast](https://wavek8s.com/features/cluster-resource-forecast): 7-60 day capacity prediction
- [PV Capacity Forecast](https://wavek8s.com/features/pv-capacity-forecast): Storage exhaustion prediction
- [Memory Leak Detection](https://wavek8s.com/features/memory-leak-detection): Detect abnormal memory growth before OOMKill
- [CPU Utilization Analysis](https://wavek8s.com/features/cpu-utilization-analysis): Identify CPU waste and throttling
- [Pod Scheduling Delay Detection](https://wavek8s.com/features/pod-scheduling-delay-detection): Find scheduling bottlenecks
- [Idle Node Detection](https://wavek8s.com/features/idle-node-detection): Find underutilized nodes
- [Unused PV Detection](https://wavek8s.com/features/unused-pv-detection): Identify orphaned persistent volumes
- [PV Auto-Expansion](https://wavek8s.com/features/pv-auto-expansion): Automatic volume resizing
- [PV Cleanup](https://wavek8s.com/features/pv-cleanup): Safe orphaned volume removal
- [Programmable API](https://wavek8s.com/features/programmable-api): REST API for automation and integration
- [SSO (OIDC)](https://wavek8s.com/features/sso): OIDC single sign-on for the Web Console (Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Keycloak) with break-glass local admin
- [Alerts](https://wavek8s.com/features/alerts): Configurable alerting for anomalies
- [Karpenter Dashboard](https://wavek8s.com/features/karpenter-dashboard): Unified Karpenter visibility
- [Karpenter Node Warmup](https://wavek8s.com/features/karpenter-node-warmup): Pre-warm nodes before demand
- [Karpenter Spot Workload Placement](https://wavek8s.com/features/karpenter-spot-workload-placement): Automated Spot/On-Demand separation

## API
- [API Reference](https://wavek8s.com/api-reference): REST API documentation

## Pricing
- [Pricing](https://wavek8s.com/pricing): Free under 200 vCPUs across all install methods (Amazon EKS, OpenShift, other Kubernetes); above 200 vCPUs, per-vCPU metered billing via AWS Marketplace on EKS, or contact us for OpenShift and other Kubernetes

## Blog (Recent)
- [Wave 3.1.0: Karpenter Node-Level Intelligence](https://wavek8s.com/blog/2026-03-23-wave-autoscale-3-1-0)
- [Toward an AI-Native Control Plane](https://wavek8s.com/blog/2026-03-13-toward-an-ai-native-control-plane-wave-autoscales-next-chapter)
- [Why Traffic Shaping Is the Missing Piece](https://wavek8s.com/blog/2026-03-12-why-traffic-shaping-is-the-missing-piece-in-your-kubernetes-scaling-strategy)
- [Rethinking Kubernetes Observability](https://wavek8s.com/blog/2026-03-11-rethinking-kubernetes-observability)
- [Enterprise Kubernetes Workloads Beyond HPA](https://wavek8s.com/blog/2026-01-30-how-to-manage-enterprise-kubernetes-workloads-beyond-hpa)

## Contact
- Website: https://wavek8s.com
- Demo: https://wavek8s.com/contact
- Company: https://www.stclab.com