Monitor for underutilized resources

20 votes

Especially in cloud environments, new resources are quickly added, but often times not removed quickly enough. Often times, requested resources (i.e. EC2 instances) are far over-dimensioned for the task at hand.

It would therefore be very useful if Checkmk could also look for underutilized resources, e.g. by providing a view such as: "show me all EC2/VM/... where the average CPU util under the last 7 days has been <x%"

For some checks (i.e. temperature) it is already possible to specify upper and lower thresholds. I guess this would then be necessary for the typical utilization checks like CPU, memory, etc...

Under consideration Checks&Agents Suggested by: Elias (25 May, '22) • Upvoted: 01 Feb • Comments: 5

Comments: 5

29 Dec, '22
Paulo Adriano Merged
That option would allow the identification of servers that are wasting resources using low levels of Memory and CPU for a long period of time.
30 Dec, '22
Daniel Merged
Interesting idea!
Never thought about this, as not my "business", but makes sense.

1. Would be an addition to the "capacity mgmt light", which is already implemented
2. Would work great in combination with this feature as well
https://features.checkmk.com/suggestions/295556/top-10-hosts-dashlet

Upvote!
31 Jan, '23
Elias Merged
There already is a feature suggestion along these lines: https://features.checkmk.com/suggestions/302407/monitor-for-underutilized-resources

@Product Management: Is there a way to consolidate two similar feature suggestions?
31 Jan, '23
Thomas Lippert Admin Merged
Hi Elias, yes it is possible and I do it right away
31 Jan, '23
Thomas Lippert Admin
"Low level thresholds for CPU and Memory Averaging" (suggested by Paulo Adriano on 2022-12-29), including upvotes (12) and comments (3), was merged into this suggestion.