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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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Better unified savings reporting

Commitment reporting Optimization ROI Reliability UI Filtering Time Selection
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

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...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

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

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

Rightsizing Widget: Increase Data Window from 10 to 30 Days

Currently, the Rightsizing widget displays data for only the past 10 days, but based on suggestion from ticket TS019147686, we propose extending this to a 30-day range.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Cloudability RightSizing Snooze auditability

As a Cloudability Admin I'd like the RightSizing Snooze functionality improved from an Audibility perspective: - who instigated the snooze itself - when was the snooze enabled - add a comment field to explain the decision Bell provided feedback: T...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

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

Improve the way Azure Disk recommendations are displayed in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing

When looking at Azure Disk recommendations in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing, the THROUGHPUT (MB/S) chart of the Recommendations page is confusing, as the units are actually in Mbps. Please remove the capitalisation so the units are unambiguo...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

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.

Include Disk USED vs Provisioned as a rightsizing recommendation

As a new rightsizing opportunity, for customers who have enhanced CW metrics enabled on their EC2 instances could we look to including a capability to check the actually utilized disk vs what was provisioned, eg: you're only using 10GB of a 1TB pr...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration