Sep 05 2015 5 mins 1
Right-sizing your environment is one of the most stressful decisions to make when moving to the cloud. If you under-provision resources, systems are at risk of going down and you lose money. If you over-provision, you’re wasting money that could be used elsewhere. In this presentation, we’ll share with you 3 ways we’ve learned how to get capacity utilization wrong and how we eventually got it right.
- CPU measurement alone won’t give you the full view of your infrastructure utilization
- You can’t measure the utilization for a metric if you don’t know how high it can go
- If you only rely on request count and don’t include queue length, you will miss an early warning
