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title: Capacity Planning Dashboard
slug: capacity-planning-dashboard
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createdAt: 2026-05-28T13:01:34.757Z
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The **Capacity Planning Dashboard** provides insights into current cluster utilization and highlights CPU and memory overcommitment.

To access the dashboard:

1. Navigate to Container Cluster Management.
2. In the left navigation bar, hover over the Container Cluster Management **Dashboard** icon.
3. Select **Capacity Planning**.

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Users must have an App Owner, Capacity & Performance Engineer or IT Ops Mgr role assigned to access the Capacity Planning Dashboard.
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In addition to the Cluster Health by Provider (donut chart), Actionable Insights and the Cluster List table, the dashboard includes three additional tiles that provide an at-a-glance view of capacity and utilization:

- **Most utilized clusters**: The number of clusters that exceeded the high threshold for CPU, memory or storage in the last 30 days.
- **CPU overcommitted clusters**: The number of clusters that currently exceed the overcommitted CPU threshold.
- **Memory overcommitted clusters**: The number of clusters that currently exceed the overcommitted memory threshold.

Thresholds for overcommitment follow:

- **CPU utilization:**
  - Green: 0% - 70% (normal range)
  - Amber: 71% - 80% (warning range)
  - Red: 81% - 100% (action recommended range)
- **Memory utilization:**
  - Green: 0% - 80% (normal range)
  - Amber: 81% - 90% (warning range)
  - Red: 91% - 100% (action recommended range)
- **Memory utilization:**
  - Green: 0% - 75% (normal range)
  - Amber: 76% - 80% (warning range)
  - Red: 81% - 100% (action recommended range)

Each tile contains a **View** link that navigates to a details table for all affected clusters. Details include critical identifying information such as cluster name, environment, (CPU/memory) utilization and (CPU/memory) request.

Directly below the utilization and overcommitment tiles, the dashboard presents two tables:

- **Top 20 Pods by Network I/O: **The 20 pods with the highest amount of inbound and outbound network traffic. Click the Pod Name for Utilization details:
  - **CPU utilization:** A graph that provides instantaneous utilization over time in one-day increments.
  - **Memory Utilization:** A graph that provides instantaneous utilization over time in one-day increments.
  - **Storage utilization:** A graph that provides instantaneous utilization over time in one-day increments.
  - **Network I/O: **A graph that provides instantaneous traffic measurement over time in one-day increments.
- **Top 20 Pods by Disk I/O: **The 20 pods with the highest amount of read and write throughput traffic. Click the Pod Name for Utilization details:
  - **CPU utilization: **A graph that provides instantaneous utilization over time in one-day increments.
  - **Memory Utilization: **A graph that provides instantaneous utilization over time in one-day increments.
  - **Storage utilization:** A graph that provides instantaneous utilization over time in one-day increments.
  - **Disk I/O:** A graph that provides instantaneous disk read and write throughput over time in one-day increments.