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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 the Views tab, select 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 Resolving-capacity-risk-and-efficiency-issues-by-using-recommendations.

Recommendations summary

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

Filtering options

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

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

Recommendations details

To view the recommendation details, for a VM, click the corresponding Efficiency icon (for example: recom_efficiency_medium.png).
The Recommendations window displays 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) Indicator of the level of accuracy or reliability of the resizing recommendation. For more information about how the recommendation is generated, see Overallocated-VM-recommendation.

Click the icon to view its description.

The icon has 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.