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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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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 ...
18 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
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...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Visibility on the autoshutdown of instances

Recommendations related to the use of the instances Specify a time slot and check for machines that do not comply with autoshutdown.
8 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)
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Integrate supported instance types for Anthos workloads in rightsizing recommendations

https://support.apptio.com/s/case/5004v00001p2cEDAAY/integrate-supported-instance-types-for-anthos-workloads-in-rightsizing-recommendations List of supported instance types: https://cloud.google.com/anthos/clusters/docs/multi-cloud/aws/reference/s...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Under review

Integrate supported instance types for SAP workloads in rightsizing recommendations

https://support.apptio.com/s/case/5004v00001p2cDyAAI/integrate-supported-instance-types-for-sap-workloads-in-rightsizing-recommendations List of supported instance types: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quickstart/latest/sap-hana/instances.html
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 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.
8 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...
18 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.
12 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review