Overview

Recommendations are an important element within Umbrella Cost, and reflect potential savings and actionable suggestions to save waste.

Umbrella provides several types of recommendations. Some are provided by the CSP, others are based on the analysis done by Umbrella.

The new Waste Detector interface enables

Filtering the recommendations by preset status filters or custom filters
Easy slice and dice of the potential savings according to a number of dimensions, such as service, region, tags and many more.
- You can arrange the most relevant dimensions to be presented and hide less relevant ones
- The information is sorted according to the potential savings or the number of recommendations
Easy slice and dice of your completed recommendations (Previously referred to as the history) using similar or other dimensions
Tracking your waste target compliance in a designated period

Recommendation life cycle

The recommendation life-cycle has two properties, an Umbrella managed status, which is the automated part, and a manual status which is managed by the user.

Status	Description	Update Type
Open	Ready for users to review and act upon	Automatic
Completed	A recommendation that was performed. When the resource has changed in a different manner. A close reason indication will be added to such a recommendation.	Automatic
Done	Marked by a user a Done. 'Done' recommendations will be calculated into the 'Actual Savings"	Manual
Excluded	Marked by a user as excluded. 'Excluded' recommendations will be removed from the 'potential savings'	Manual

Waste Detector Sections

Waste Map

View the dimensions most relevant to you by adding them to the main display, hiding less relevant dimensions.
Use the built in heatmap to see the recommendations grouped by their total sum or count.
Click on an item in the heatmap to filter by that item
The summary line sums the total Potential savings and Actual savings based on your filters

Waste Chart

The status filter (see below) is set to Potential Savings
View the waste per recommendation type and service
View your target waste and over-waste figures

The Summary Line

Please note that all figures in the summary line are based on the recommendation information and the filters you have chosen to filter the recommendations by.

If you are looking for the total cost regardless of recommendations, please view the information in the CUE.

Summary line item	Description
Annual Potential Savings	Annual summary of all potential savings from the open recommendations
ExSR	Annual potential savings divided by the current cost of the open recommendations
Annual Actual Savings	Annual summary of savings from all completed or done recommendations
ESR	Annual Actual Savings divided by the current cost (cost prior to recommendation) of the complete or done recommendations
Excluded	Annual summary of excluded recommendations

On-Demand & Net Amortized view

Toggle between viewing the savings according to actual usage and on-demand pricing based on the public cost, and the savings based on Net Amortized calculations.

Status Filters

Use the status preset filters to get things done.

Potential Savings - That's your To-Do list. These are the Open recommendations that need to be worked on.
Actual Savings - That's your done list. These are the automatically completed or manually marked as done items. These are your historical savings.
Excluded - That's your deferred list. All the items you have marked for exclusion for any reason.
User Actions - These are the items touched by anyone, either to mark as done, or as excluded.
Custom Settings - Choose other combinations based on your needs.

Additional filters

Use the additional filters to filter by any combination of properties, including tags and values

Recommendation List

The recommendations are listed below based on your filters

Click the 'Columns' button to choose the properties you wish to view in the recommendation table

Recommendation Details

Multiple recommendations per resource

Some resources might have more than one recommendation relevant to them. In such cases, the information will be highlighted on that resource, and allow you to filter the recommendations on that resource

How to apply the recommendation

Copy the command to your own scripts to apply the recommendation in your environment

User Actions on a Recommendation

Mark the recommendation as 'Done' or 'Excluded'
Star it for future filtering
Add a comment
Add a label
Go to the preferences page to disable this recommendation type altogether

Additional features

Savings Tracker: Click on the following icon to see all of your savings (recommendations with status 'done' or 'completed')

Creating Views: After applying your unique filters, simply click the following icon to save the filtered view for future use instead of creating it every time. In addition, you can set a custom view as a default view of the Waste Detector page. The user can create the views under 3 different views types and each will make it available for different audiences:
1. Personal Views- These views will be available only for the user who created them.
2. Organization Views- These views will be available across all accounts of the same cloud provider, and in the case of an MSP also to his customers.
3. Account Views- These views will be available to the specific account they were created from.

Save as a panel: Click on the following icon to save it as a dashboard panel.