Overview
CCM Recommendations are designed to be informative and actionable from the start. You can customize these recommendations to fit your specific business use cases and needs. Set your own metric thresholds and evaluation time frames to reduce unnecessary alerts and focus on the recommendations that matter most.
With custom recommendations, you can:
- Configure multiple rules for any default recommendation
- View the history and changes made to your configurations
- Modify, restore, or delete previously set rules
Customize a recommendation
Customizations reflect within 24 hours, when recommendations are generated next.
To access custom recommendations, go to Cloud Cost > Settings > Configure Recommendations.
On this page, you can see a list of out-of-the-box recommendations that can be customized.
Click a recommendation, then click Create New Configuration to get started.
Step 1: Set custom metric thresholds
You can set a value for each metric threshold used to generate resource recommendations.
Metric thresholds that cannot be customized appear grayed out.
Step 2: Customize the evaluation time frame
Adjust the evaluation time frame to match your business’s seasonality or operational patterns. Options include: 1 week, 2 weeks, 15 days, 3 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, and 3 months.
Step 3: Apply this rule to all resources
The rule applies to all resources in your environment.
Step 4: (optional) Label and document the customization
Use this step to add a reason and unique name to your configuration so you can audit and reference this recommendation later.
- Reason: Provide a reason for your customization to support future audits and maintain a clear record of changes.
- Name: Enter a descriptive name for the configuration to identify and locate this recommendation in the future.
Step 5: Save the recommendation
Click Save to save your customized recommendation. Recommendations that have already been customized once are labeled Configured.
Updating custom recommendations
You can update a custom recommendation at any time to reflect changes in your business needs.
To update a custom recommendation:
- Navigate to Cloud Cost > Settings > Configure Recommendations.
- Go to the customized recommendation.
- Modify the parameters as needed.
- Click Save.
- In the confirmation popup, click Yes, save custom parameters to apply your changes.
Further reading
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