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Workload Optimization (Rightsizing)

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Container recommendations should include recommendations where limits = request for all resources and one where they are not identical.

Customers would like to see recommendations where they can guarantee that the workload will have the resources as well as ones where the ability is variable (limit does not equal requested). Different workloads have different needs. It would be he...

Rightsizing ROI Enhancements - Realized Savings, user experience, & reporting impacts

As a FinOps practitioner responsible for driving FinOps best practice adoption across our organization, and responsible to deliver potential & realized savings metrics to the executives, I require the ability to report on the savings offered &...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Include license costs in the rightsizing opportunity calculation

It has come to our attention that the savings opportunity shown in the cloudability rightsizing are not inclusive of licensing costs, as a result saving potential is being understated for resources that would also see a license save as a result of...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Needs more information

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...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add integration for Dynatrace to ingest granular metrics for Virtual Machine rightsizing

Currently Cloudability supports New Relic and Datadog for VM utilisation metrics - please can you add support for Dynatrace
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Option to select Effective costs in the RightSizing Explorer page

The rest of the pages have the option to show effective costs but not the landing page which only shows on-demand
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add filters in Rightsizing ROI to separate Deleted/Terminated savings from Rightsizing-only savings

Currently, Rightsizing ROI shows combined savings from all optimization actions. Customers cannot distinguish between savings from rightsizing (downsize/resize) versus decommissioning (delete/terminate). This inflates the ROI picture and makes it ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Rightsizing for ECS workloads

Rightsizing support for ECS.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Exclude idle time in IOPS and Throughput metrics

Consider excluding idle time when calculating IOPS and Throughput metrics used for recommendations or add it as an optional way to interpret and view recommendations. The current formula used is the sum of read and write operations dived by time p...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration