Cloud Advisor in Cloud

 Few months backs, Oracle launched this new feature which is know as Cloud Advisor. Finally i got the chance to explore it on how it looks and how it works.

Cloud Advisor basically finds potential inefficiencies in your tenancy and offers guided solutions that explain how to address them. The recommendations help you maximize cost savings and improve the security of your tenancy. You can also customize Cloud Advisor by postponing or dismissing recommendations that aren't applicable.

Let's go to the OCI console and show you how it looks like:-

How Cloud Advisor Works

Cloud Advisor scans your tenancy once per day to identify specific cost-saving recommendations. After seven days, Cloud Advisor accumulates enough data to provide recommended actions with associated cost savings estimates. For Cloud Advisor to see CPU utilization and provide compute recommendations, you must allow monitoring of compute instances. When monitoring is not enabled, Cloud Advisor recommends that you enable it. For more information, see Enabling Monitoring for Compute Instances.

When Cloud Advisor has enough data to provide recommendations, a list of recommendations appears in the Recommendations dashboard. When applicable, the recommendations include cost savings estimates. In the Recommendations dashboard, you can implement, postpone, or dismiss the recommendations. For more information, see Customizing the Recommendation List.

Whenever possible, Cloud Advisor allows you to implement recommendations directly from the Recommendations dashboard. Often, you can implement the recommendation either for specific resources or for all resources in the tenancy that the recommendation applies to. When you implement a recommendation within Cloud Advisor, a work request for the change is created. When the work request completes, the new status appears in the History table. You can also implement the recommendations through the API or manually in the Console. In those cases, the new status is reflected in the History table the next time Cloud Advisor scans your tenancy.

Go the dashboard:-

Click on recommendations:-

How Cost Savings Estimates Are Calculated

Cloud Advisor estimates cost savings for most of its recommendations, providing a dollar amount representing an estimate of how much lower your costs could be if you implement the recommendation. This section lists each recommendation that comes with a cost savings estimate and describes how Cloud Advisor calculates that estimate.

When you implement a recommendation using a work flow outside of Cloud Advisor, an entry appears in the History table after Cloud Advisor scans the tenancy.

When a recommendation is no longer applicable because of a change in usage, a row appears in the History table with the recommendation status Implemented.

Hope this helps someone. Happy learning Cloud.