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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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How to filter by uptime for Rightsizing recommendations?

How to filter by uptime for Rightsizing recommendations? https://support.apptio.com/s/case/5004v00001p1pE1AAI/how-to-filter-by-uptime-for-rightsizing-recommendations
about 14 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Add business mapping on Recommendation API endpoint

When retrieving API endpoints for rightsizing recommendations we can not seem to retrieve the associated business mappings for the resources we are retrieving. We would like to be able to do that.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

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...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Recommendations for instance scheduling

One way to reduce costs is to allow for instance scheduling to downsize ASGs or power off instances during periods that the system is not being used. Customers would like to be able to view recommendations for workloads that can save money by inve...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

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...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

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 ...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Container - Bin packing recommendations

Clusters could be more optimized if the bin packing was optimized. It would be helpful to see recommendations that provided guidance to more optimally utilize clusters.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Unify resource ID display Azure

In the right sizing recommendations I the ResourceID some sometimes not displayed for Azure resources. Which makes it a bit cumbersome to find these resources if for instance you want to dig up details in for instance Apptio BI. In addition what i...
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...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

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.
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review