Evidence-driven AKS optimization

Understand what your workloads actually need.

Evidence-backed CPU and Memory recommendations for Azure AKS. Understand where a change may help, where the current request fits, and when more evidence is needed.

For Azure AKS workloads. Agentless assessment. Your team controls changes.

RATIVERA / Workload evidenceIllustrative example

Deployment · demo workload

checkout-api

Illustrative assessment

CPU

1000m

Current request

↓ DOWNSIZE600m

Proposed request · per replica

MEMORY

512MiB

Current request

↑ UPSIZE768MiB

Proposed request · per replica

Reliability comes first.

This illustrative proposal shows different directions for CPU and memory. Actual recommendations require sufficient evidence and applicable constraints.

Human decision PENDINGInfrastructure changes NONE
Illustrative values, not a portal screenshot or customer data. No measured outcome or savings claim.

One Problem at a Time · Episode 1 · 1:15

Are your Kubernetes workloads requesting more resources than they need?

Why requests and usage differ, and why a low average alone cannot justify a reduction.

Illustrative numbers, not a customer result or savings claim. Requests affect scheduler placement; existing containers can still use otherwise idle CPU. In the CPU example, observed peaks are based on sampled five-minute averages. Seven days is the reduction-history gate described here; protective memory increases can follow a different path.

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CPU recommendations · Memory recommendations

Episode page & transcript · Download MP4

01 Evidence determines sizing02 Reliability before reduction03 You remain in control

From assumptions to understanding

A request is a decision.
Give it a reason.

Inherited defaults. Last year’s peak. A generous buffer that nobody wants to touch.

Kubernetes requests often outlive the assumptions behind them. RATIVERA helps you examine the workload behavior and context behind a sizing decision.

When the evidence does not support a recommendation, the useful answer is an explanation of what is missing.

Explore the product

The stewardship loop

Observe carefully.
Recommend with reasons.

01

Observe

Measure workload behavior.

02

Learn

Build historical context.

03

Recommend

Explain a supported proposal.

04

Review

Preserve the human decision.

05

Act

Your change process.

06

Explain

Keep evidence and reasoning visible.

Assessment and human decisions are separate from applying changes. No automatic infrastructure changes.

Understand each step

Evidence, in context

See the conclusion.
Keep the reasoning close.

01

Current and proposed

A current observation and a historical recommendation tell different parts of the story. Both should be clear.

02

Protection and uncertainty

Understand observed demand, protected historical demand and the gaps that can withhold a recommendation.

03

Decisions with history

Accept, reject or defer. Preserve the decision and rejection rationale without silently changing the sizing model.

ASSESSMENT AND EXECUTION ARE SEPARATE

RATIVERA observes and recommends.
It never directly changes your running workloads.

Explore Security & Trust

A bounded evaluation

Start with your environment.

Review your AKS scope and monitoring prerequisites. Explore the 14-day Trial. Registration will open only after Production readiness is confirmed and the founder authorizes onboarding.

Explore the 14-day Trial

Built for teams running AKS.

For platform engineers, DevOps engineers, and engineering managers who need to explain a resource decision before making a change.

No RATIVERA agent in your AKS cluster. The AKS path reads authorized Azure resource facts and supported monitoring data; Azure Managed Prometheus and retained metrics are prerequisites.

Check your environment · Review access and permissions

Choose the workload. Keep the decision.

Discovery shows what is present. Explicit workload selection records what your team wants assessed. A recommendation still depends on usable evidence and the applicable checks; selection is not a promise that a recommendation will be available.

Understand the 14-day Trial and what follows

Make room for better decisions

Start with the evidence.

Understand the reasoning before you change the request.

See how RATIVERA works

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