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Finala: A cloud scanner that analyzes wasteful and unused resources

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71 pointsvinnyglennon16 comments

Neat. Can you fix the numbers in the readme? It's difficult to trust a project that has glaringly obvious math errors on the front page (0.068 * 720 = 48.96, not 600.96).

Fixed. Thank you!

IMO stuff like this should be built in. Google Cloud has a few recommenders (https://cloud.google.com/recommender/docs/recommenders), but it'd probably make sense to expand those to nearly all resources.

But can you expect the merchant to tell you to buy less?

At a minimum I expect the seller to not try to deliberately confuse me as to what I'm paying for, which is something AWS does to its customers. Google instead aggregates all your resource usage into a coherent UI and presents billing information in a form you don't need third party tools to understand.

You should expect the seller to maximize their profit however they can. Also, sellers that show no sign of ethics shouldn't be trusted period. Amazon is definitely one. Putting your stuff in the Amazon cloud worrying about deceptive practices or overcharging is asking the fox to guard the hen house.

Pick a different provider(s) with a better track record. Alternatively, choose Amazon saying its benefits outweigh its deceptive practices. Whichever.

My point exactly. I run my stuff on GCP.

Just a quick update Finala have now Dashboard out of the box! Check out the release https://github.com/similarweb/finala#example-unused-rds-repo...

We used cloud custodian, it does a really good job.

https://github.com/cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian

custodian supports doing a lot of things, wrt to cost it performs similar activities, ie a yaml file to query metrics to find underutilized resources and then either notify the creator/owner via email/slack, online resize, or shut them down across many (hundreds of resources). additionally for cost can be used for off hours on instances/rds in dev envs, tag enforcement, etc. also supports multiple clouds and can be deployed as a serverless function.

Did you deploy it in Lambda? We have a big cloud deployment and cloud custodian sometimes take more than 15 mins to run.

Hey guys, I have created examples for different use cases: https://github.com/similarweb/finala#use-cases

what's considered wasteful in this case?

There appears to be a config file that defines this: https://github.com/similarweb/finala/blob/master/config.yaml

Hey, You have a configuration file that you can console the threshold.

I have created the project with a default threshold (wasteful in my opinion, rds that have 0 connection in the last week)

You can change the threshold very easy if you want to

cool thanks it might be useful to have it in documentation i had no idea where to start looking

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