| 1 | # Capacity Planning |
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| 3 | Stop guessing and plan with confidence. The Capacity Planning report projects growth, highlights inflection points, and recommends concrete hardware or configuration changes backed by your actual utilization trends. |
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| 7 | ## When to use it |
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| 9 | - Quarterly/annual planning and budgeting cycles |
| 10 | - Preparing procurement requests and vendor discussions |
| 11 | - Evaluating consolidation and right‑sizing opportunities |
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| 13 | ## How to generate |
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| 15 | 1. Open `Insights` in Netdata Cloud |
| 16 | 2. Select `Capacity Planning` |
| 17 | 3. Pick a historical window and forecast horizon (3–24 months) |
| 18 | 4. Scope to nodes, rooms, or services |
| 19 | 5. Click `Generate` |
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| 21 | ## What’s analyzed |
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| 23 | - Historical utilization and growth trends (CPU, memory, storage, network) |
| 24 | - Variability, seasonality, and workload patterns |
| 25 | - Anomaly‑adjusted baselines for accurate projections |
| 26 | - Cross‑node comparisons and consolidation candidates |
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| 28 | ## What you get |
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| 30 | - Exhaustion date estimates for key resources |
| 31 | - Headroom analysis and risk categorization |
| 32 | - Concrete recommendations (e.g., instance types, disk tiers, scaling) |
| 33 | - Opportunity map for consolidation and cost savings |
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| 37 | ## Example: Quarterly planning |
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| 39 | Produce a report that justifies next‑quarter spend: show utilization trends, where headroom is tight, when you’ll breach capacity, and specific remediation options with trade‑offs. |
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| 41 | ## Best practices |
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| 43 | - Run monthly; compare sequential reports for trend confidence |
| 44 | - Pair with `Performance Optimization` to validate trade‑offs |
| 45 | - Use room‑level scoping to build service‑oriented plans |
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| 47 | ## Availability and usage |
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| 49 | - Available on Business and Free Trial plans |
| 50 | - Each report consumes 1 AI credit (10 free per month on eligible plans) |
| 51 | - Reports are saved in Insights and downloadable as PDFs |
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