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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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Hide recommendations filter for UI

Currently we can filter the application to show rightsizing recommendations for compute over a certain amount. We'd like to see more elaborate filter options that apply to all right sizing categories like: 1) An amount threshold that applies to al...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

set default value for timeline

Next to setting the default cost metrics, we would like to be able to set default value for the timeline for rightsizing.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

RightSizing ROI Screen Filters- add Account Id / Name

As an FinOps Lead in Cloudability I want to easily navigate to those ROI items that are for my payer or my account(id or name). Please add these fields to the screen and the report filters.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Create multiple tickets

Would be great if we could create multiple Cloudability Issues as part of rightsizing recommendations at once. Now you have to create these one by one.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Exclude No action recommendations

When we look at data in the rightsizing panel we often see recommendation with the recommendation 'no action' (in all scenario's whether we are using 10/30 days and on-demand/effective rate. We like to filter out this data from the rightsizing pre...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Improve the way Azure Disk recommendations are displayed in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing

When looking at Azure Disk recommendations in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing, the THROUGHPUT (MB/S) chart of the Recommendations page is confusing, as the units are actually in Mbps. Please remove the capitalisation so the units are unambiguo...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Add RDS Customizations to Rightsizing Preferences Page

This would allow for the customization of what recommendations are being made for RDS, either by usage family, costs, etc
27 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Planned for future release

Improve currently non-intuitive Right-Sizing policies and ROI functionality

1) When creating a right-sizing policy, clicking "Save and Run" will only generate tickets according to the schedule, rather than to run the policy immediately. This is confusing. If I set a Daily schedule and click Save and Run it will generate a...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release