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Workload Optimization

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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...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 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...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 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). ...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Future consideration

Rightsizing ROI Widget totals based on 30/10 days, on-demand/effective

The current widget totals displaying the potential savings and realized savings show add up 10-days and 30-day timeline amounts. However the ticket is created this is how the potential and realized savings are displayed. Thus the total figures are...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Filter Enhancement - ROI Rightsizing, Rightsizing - Upgrade Filters

Enhance filters for ROI tickets within the ROI Rightsizing module & from within report module. As a FinOps practitioner required to report on adoption rates & realized savings, I need to be able to: report on ROI tickets actioned during sp...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Rightsizing ROI- Allow businesses to define custom resolutions when "Wont Do" is selected in Rightsizing ROI tickets.

As a FinOps practitioner at a large company, I need to be able to itemize missed optimization opportunities. Currently, the comment field offered in the Rightsizing ROI is a free form only field, and the field is not exported when you export the r...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Include the Connection count metric for Azure SQL recommendations

Rightsizing - We need Cloudability to have the number of connections metric for Azure SQL Database recommendations - "Succesful connections" in the details of the recommendations
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Usage by Hour Ability with GCP Data and Off Hours Savings Tracker

Our company is wanting to see potential savings by spinning down resources during off hours but are currently restricted as Cloudability only supports the day of week for time period and not hours for GCP data (GCP billing data has usage_start and...
30 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Future consideration

In Rightsizing ROI, add capability to add business dimensions to rightsizing filters.

Currently in Optimization > Rightsizing ROI, the existing [+ Add Filter] menu lists a very limited set of dimensions for use.Filters do not match those available in Optimization > Rightsizing
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Future consideration

Cloudability support Idle Load Balancer in Rightsizing service or in reporting

Today, there isn't a way to get this info of Idle load balancers in Cloudabiltiy the only way to do so, is by tagging resources in AWS to reflect in Cloudability.THis is not good for our organization' as we manage several AWS payer accounts with d...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration