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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

Support for Snowflake Cost Optimization Capabilities

Enhance visibility and control over Snowflake spend by identifying cost drivers, optimizing warehouse sizing and usage, reducing idle compute, and leveraging features like auto-suspend, query optimization, and storage tiering.

Optimisation Dashboard Savings reporting improvements

We would find the Optimisation Dashboard more useful if it reported savings consistently and in line with more standard business use cases. Without this, it is of limited usefulness to us and we would shy away from endorsing use amongst our users....
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

Rightsizing Data Export: Include Cloudability Ticket/Issue ID

Include Cloudability Ticket/Issue ID in export of rightsizing data export.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

Rightsizing Table Change- More Columns

Add more columns to the rightsizing table from Tags & Labels and Business Dimensions. Feature should include objects in export.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

Snooze function improvements

1. Comment (Justification) field enhancementsRequest: Improve the comment/justification flow when snoozing resources by adding structured and mandatory input options.Requirements:   Pre-set (customizable) list of justifications available in a drop...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

Add AWS EC2 Cached Memory metric to Cloudability

This will be useful for accurate rightsizing
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

Have additional columns in Rightsizing available (selectable) for BMs

Having customer context via a selectable BM in Rightsizing would enhance reporting in the Rightsizing UI and give finer grained reporting for what workloads supported what purpose potentially leading to quicker rightsizing actions.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

I use the comments field to notate progress of Optimization ticket, this includes when notified customer and any feedback. It would be great if when I export the report if comments were included based on ticket.

I use the comments field to notate progress of Optimization ticket, this includes when notified customer and any feedback. It would be great if when I export the report if comments were included based on ticket. See attached file for the location ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

Azure rightsizing-recommendation- Disk

BUPA has confirmed they cannot move from P→S series for production workloads. Moving from Premium SSD to Standard SSD is generally not viable for production due to the IOPS and throughput downgrade, so the savings shown in the CLDY Disk Rightsizin...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

Rightsizing minimum 30 day savings dimension based on % of savings not a $ number

Percentage spend makes more sense across a wide footprint. Right saizing a dollar a month meh, rightsizing 5 or 10 percent is gold.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration