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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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

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.
28 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

The Rightsizing Jira integration should reference issue_id not issue_key to ensure linking connection.

Sometimes a Jira ticket for a rightsizing opportunity is created on one board and then it is determined another team needs to own the work so the Jira ticket is moved to that teams board. If this happens the integration back into Cloudbaility for ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 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 (Rightsizing) 0 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...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 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...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

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

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...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Planned for future release

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