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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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Integrate Comments from Service Now Rightsizing Recommendation records back to Cloudability

Its very difficult to get engineers to take action on Rightsizing - this was the number 1 key priority in FinOps for many years up until 2024 - its still very important - having engineers and FinOps working together in one tool is key to getting t...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Savings opportunities - identify potential savings and report progress

No description provided
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

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.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Unify resource ID display Azure

In the right sizing recommendations I the ResourceID some sometimes not displayed for Azure resources. Which makes it a bit cumbersome to find these resources if for instance you want to dig up details in for instance Apptio BI. In addition what i...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

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

RightSizing ROI Screen Filters- add Account Id / Name

As an FinOps Lead in Cloudability I want to easily navigate to those ROI items that are for my payer or my account(id or name). Please add these fields to the screen and the report filters.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 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.
4 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.
5 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.
5 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...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration