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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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Customizable metric multiplier / threshold for rightsizing recommendation

In some production enviroments, workloads are intentionally overprovisioned to allow for burst capacity, stability or failover requirements.In most cases this is has to do with compliance and regulations bound apps. We propose addig a metric multi...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Make it possible to report 30-day savings amounts for each ROI ticket.

Right now the savings amount that is reported per ticket is either 10-day or 30-day and there is no way to change this. As a result, I have a total savings number with a mix of both time periods, making it impossible to know how much is being save...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Ability to Add Account Groups to Filter Dropdown in Rightsizing

Currently the filters in Rightsizing contain some Cldy standard dimensions and then all tags and all business dimensions. It would be helpful to also include the Account Groups in the filter dropdown options.

Add email subscription option for Cloudability Optimize Rightsizing Recommendations

Problem:Right now a user can only retrieve rightsizing recommendations relevant to them by going into the Optimize Rightsizing UI, applying relevant filters to narrow it down to infrastructure thei own and seeing if there are any results. This is ...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Do not show already terminated resources in Cloudability Optimize → Rightsizing recommendations

Problem:Right now the resource 'state' is not available in any manner within the optimization rightsizing tooling. This means that resources, such as EC2 instances, that have already been shut down and terminated are still showing the recommendati...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Develop Container ROI Policy to track Container Optimizations

As a FinOps practitioner at a large company, it's imperative to track & report on all savings achieved. We are currently unable to track any container optimization savings as there isn't an ROI policy available for Containers.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

IOPS & Throughput Added to Workload Optimization Calculations

Cloudability Rightsizing recommendations are based primarily on CPU, Memory and GPU utilization (in the case of A2 and G2 instances). However, it’s important to note that throughput and IOPS characteristics are not currently factored into these re...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Ability to configure table columns shown in Optimize → Rightsizing recommendation summaries

Problem:Right now you can filter the rightsizing table down based on tags and resource meta data however there no way to include and show relevant tag values, resource state, dimensions. Request:Have the ability to show what columns show in the ta...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Provide more details on the Apptio help center

Rightsizing in Cloudability (apptio.com) Currently the apptio help center doesn't include a comprehensive explaination on idle resource, such as the how to define S3 idle percentage, which will affect the user experience.