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Capacity Planning dashboard
Published On Jun 03, 2026 - 7:54 PM

Capacity Planning dashboard

Gain a keen understanding of current capacity and the ability to preemptively balance resources for maximum cost efficiency.
The Capacity Planning dashboard provides insights into current utilization and reports overcommitment of CPU and memory within clusters. To view the Capacity Planning dashboard, first navigate to Container Cluster Management. Next, hover over the Container Cluster Management dashboard (top) icon in the left navigation bar. Select:
Capacity Planning.
Users must have the App Owner, Capacity & Performance Engineer or the IT Ops Mgr role assigned to access the Capacity Planning Dashboard.
In addition to
Cluster Health by Provider
 (donut chart), Operational Insights, and the Cluster List table, the dashboard presents three additional tiles that enable an at-a-glance assessment 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.
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