Recommendations page in the AWS EC2 Instances view


The Recommendations page in the AWS EC2 Instances view displays a set of recommended actions that can help you resolve capacity-related problems in your AWS environment.

To access the page, in the navigation pane of Helix Capacity Optimization Dashboard, click Capacity > Views > Cloud > AWS > AWS EC2 Instances. The EC2 Instances page is displayed. Click the Recommendations tab.

Based on the type of problem in the infrastructure, a recommendation type is defined. For more information about all the recommendation types, and the configurable parameters and thresholds that are used to generate them, see Using-recommendations-to-resolve-capacity-risk-and-efficiency-issues.

To view a summary of recommendations for all EC2 instances

The Recommendations table displays detailed recommendation information for all the AWS EC2 instances. The following table describes each column in detail.

To find a specific system

Use the sorting and filtering options on the page to find a specific system. For more information, see Sorting tables in views on the Helix Capacity Optimization Dashboard and Using filtering options in views on the Helix Capacity Optimization Dashboard.

Additionally, you can use the following filtering options on this page.

To review recommendations details

To view the recommendation details, for a VM, click the corresponding Efficiency icon (For example. recom_efficiency_medium.png).
The Recommendations window opens that provides the exact findings along with the recommended actions that you can take to manage the VM. 

The following table explains the different fields that you see in the Recommendations window.

Field

Description

System

Name of the virtual machine

Optimizer findings

Brief description of the issue

Type

Recommendation type. It is one of the configuration parameters in the optimizer rule that generates this recommendation

Severity/Efficiency

Efficiency level of the recommendation that is based on the estimated savings per month that you can achieve by implementing the recommended action

Generated on

Date of the last run of the associated optimizer rule

Optimizer rule

Name of the associated optimizer rule

Recommended actions

Suggested actions that you can implement to optimize your costs

Accuracy indicator

Displayed only for overallocated VM. Indicates the level of accuracy or reliability of the resizing recommendation. For more information about how the recommendation is generated, see Overallocated-VM-recommendation.

You can click the icon to view its description.

The icon can have one of the following values:

Value - Accuracy level

acc_indicator_5_icon.png- Medium

acc_indicator_3_icon.png- High

acc_indicator_4_icon.png- Very High

For more information about each accuracy level, see Troubleshooting-resizing-recommendations-for-overallocated-VMs.

For more information about recommendations, see Using-recommendations-to-resolve-capacity-risk-and-efficiency-issues.



 

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