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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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Exclude Rightsizing Recommendations if current workload is on latest generation

Currently rightsizing recommendations are providing recs that contain older generation (but are "current generation") than the current instance. For example, current instance is running on r7g but rightsizing is recommending r6g.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Rightsizing for ECS workloads

Rightsizing support for ECS.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Exclude idle time in IOPS and Throughput metrics

Consider excluding idle time when calculating IOPS and Throughput metrics used for recommendations or add it as an optional way to interpret and view recommendations. The current formula used is the sum of read and write operations dived by time p...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

API roi end point to support Accept = text/csv

Currently the API does not support Accept = text/csv hence we are not able to pull all fields with the API. Currently it is missing timeline if using Accept = text/csv
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

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

Datadog metric history plot

Impossible to have the metrics for more than 30 days even with DataDog integration (we would like 3 or 6 months)
4 days 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.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

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...
7 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...
9 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 ...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review