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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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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 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

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.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Allow people to close multiple RightSizing ROI Tickets in one go

As an owner/tracker of many RightSizing ROI tickets I would like to be able to close a group of them in one go. I currently have to visit each in turn. When I have 10's of them to close, all with small values it is very labour intensive.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Provide scheduling recommendations

Would be great if Cloudability would provide recommendations on what (compute) resources to put on a schedule (e.g. start/stop on the weekends) and if we can also create a Cloudability issue for this that enables us to track the savings.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Ability to create multiple rightsizing ticket for the same resource

Currently if a customer creates a rightsizing ticket for one issue and act on it. Now after 30 days , customer receives another recommendation for the same resource , there is no option to create a separate ticket as it will still show the previou...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Integration with Grafana Cloud for enhanced rightsizing recommendations

Currently, there is an integration with Datadog that retrieves additional data points and enhances the rightsizing recommendations. It would be great to be able to integrate other open source observability tools such as Grafana Cloud for the same ...

Optimisations should report if changes are required before they can be executed

The latest example of this is the asV6 SKUs which have a dependency for the VM to be running the NVMe disk controller, yet the recommendation is being made for VMs wwith SCSI disk controllers. These optimisations then fail when customers try to ap...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 3 Planned for future release

Rightsizing ROI to automatically track updates for the tickets created on 10 day Timeline and Incorrect Identification of Rightsized resources.

Currently if a customer is creating a rightsizing ticket for a 10 day timeline, the ticket is not getting updated automatically unless for the same recommendation exist for a 30 day timeline for the same resource id. Also if a resource has been ri...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Rightsizing ROI with a group of resources

in our finops governance, we assign optimization actions to our engineering teams. As a Finops lead, I would like to be able to assign a set of recommendations for an application (through the TAG value), not per resource type (EC2, RDS, EBS etc). ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Adding Account Owners to Rightsizing Dashboard

While we can customize our reports in BI with various dimensions, we are specifically referring to the rightsizing recommendations that help us navigate suggested scenarios. See the attached screenshot. I remember this was discussed before the CLD...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration