Snoozing Rightsizing Recommendations

If needed, you can snooze rightsizing recommendations for specific resources when it has been determined that no action is to be taken on the resource at this time. This can help enhance efficiency when reviewing and actioning rightsizing recommendations by hiding these recommendations.

Before you begin

In order to snooze rightsizing recommendations, you’ll need the proper administrative permissions.

Roles and permissions in Cloudability

Access the Rightsizing dashboard

To access the Rightsizing dashboard, open the Cloudability home page, and from the left navigation menu, select Optimize > Rightsizing . The Rightsizing dashboard displays the Explorer tab by default, however snoozing capabilities are available for services under the vendor tabs as well.

Snoozing recommendations

To start snoozing recommendations, click Snooze Mode toggle in the upper right corner of the Rightsizing page to turn on Snooze Mode.

Once the snooze mode is enabled, multiple methods will be available to snooze recommendations.

Method (bulk)

  1. here will now be a Snooze All button in the upper right corner of the recommendations table.

  2. The recommendations table will now also show an additional column (containing checkboxes) as the first column in the table.
  3. To snooze recommendations, either:
    • Click Snooze All button to snooze all recommendations for the resources in the table.
    • Check the checkbox of the recommendations you wish to snooze and click Snooze Selected (x) button to snooze just the recommendations for the selected resources.
  4. A modal will appear allowing you to choose a duration for how long the recommendations will be snoozed. Click Submit to snooze the recommendations or Cancel to cancel out.

Method (individual)

  1. Click ellipses for a recommendation to open the recommendation sub-menu.
  2. To snooze recommendations, either:
    • Click Snooze sub-menu item.
    • Click View Details sub-menu item and at the top of the Details Pane in the upper right corner, click Snooze icon.
  3. A modal will appear allowing you to choose a duration for how long the recommendation will be snoozed. Click Submit to snooze the recommendations or Cancel to cancel out.

Un-snoozing recommendations

To un-snooze recommendations:

  1. Click Options dropdown menu at the top of the Rightsizing page and select Show Snoozed Resources .
  2. The recommendations table will now display the recommendations that are currently snoozed. .
  3. To un-snooze recommendations for a resource, follow the same processes used to snooze recommendations:
    • Click Un-Snooze All button to un-snooze all recommendations for the resources in the table.
    • Check the checkbox of the recommendations you wish to un-snooze, and click on the Un-Snooze Selected (x) button that appears to un-snooze just the recommendations for the selected resources.
    • Click ellipses for a snoozed recommendation to open the recommendation sub-menu, and click Un-snooze option to un-snooze the recommendations.
    • Click ellipses for a snoozed recommendation to open the recommendation sub-menu, click View Details sub-menu item, and at the top of the Details Pane in the upper right corner, click Un-snooze icon.

Editing the duration of snoozed recommendations

To edit the duration of snoozed recommendations:

  1. Click Options dropdown menu at the top of the Rightsizing page, and select Show Snoozed Recommendations
  2. The recommendations table will now display the recommendations that are currently snoozed.
  3. Click ellipses for a snoozed recommendation to open the recommendation sub-menu.
  4. In the sub-menu, select the option to Edit Snooze (editing a snooze duration can also be done from the Details Pane with the edit snooze icon in the upper right corner).
  5. A modal will appear allowing you to choose a duration for how long the recommendation will be snoozed. Click Submit to snooze the recommendations or Cancel to cancel out.