Listing Recommendations

You can list and view Cloud Advisor recommendations with the Console, CLI, or API. See the instructions in each method to list and view recommendations.

• Console
• CLI
• API

• To use the Console to list recommendations, complete the following steps.

  1. Open the navigation menu  and select Governance & Administration. Under Cloud Advisor, select Recommendations.
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     You might not see every recommendation listed on the Categories and Recommendations page, depending on how the tenancy or compartment is set up and what you have selected in the Category, Service, and Status boxes.
  2. Optional: The default settings for Category, Service, and Status are All categories, Filter by service type (all services) and Active, . To filter the list of recommendations, select the Category, Service, and Status boxes to display the recommendations that you want to see.
     • Categories includes All categories, Cost management, Performance, and High availability. You can display only one of these at a time. For information about these categories, see Categories and Recommendations.
     • Filter by service type includes Autonomous database, Base database, Block storage, Compute, Exadata cloud, Load balancing, and Object storage. You can display any or all of these at one time.
     • Status includes Active, Dismissed, and Postponed. You can select any or all of these at one time.
  3. In the upper left pane of the window, under Filters, use the Tenancies menu to select a tenancy to display the recommendations for that tenancy.
     • All tenancies in the organization, which displays a list of all the tenancies in the organization. Scroll down to select a tenancy to display the recommendations for.
     • Parent tenancy, which displays the recommendations for only that tenancy.
     • Child tenancy, which displays the recommendations for only that tenancy.

  Downloading the data

  You can filter and download the table of recommendation information displayed on the page to a CSV file. The file is stored in the default downloads folder and displayed on the screen.

  1. Filter the data. Select the Category, Service type, and Status to filter and display the recommendations that you want to see. Then download the information on the page sorted either by recommendation of by resource.
  2. Download the data either by recommendation or by resource.
     • Downloading by recommendation
       1. Select Download by recommendation to CSV..Cloud Advisor converts the table on the page to a CSV file and downloads it to the default downloads folder. Then Cloud Advisor displays a list of the four most recent downloads with the file that you just downloaded at the top of the list.
       2. Select one of listed files. Cloud Advisor displays the CSV file on the screen.
     • Downloading by resource
       1. Select Download by resource to CSV. Cloud Advisor copies the data, sorts it by resource, and stores it in a CSV file. Then Cloud Advisor displays a list of the four most recent downloads by resource with the file that you just downloaded at the top of the list.
       2. Select one of listed files. Cloud Advisor displays the CSV file on the screen.

• This topic explains how to list recommendations using the CLI.

  Use the oci optimizer recommendation-summary list command to list recommendations.

  oci optimizer recommendation-summary list --compartment-id <compartment_OCID>

  For a complete list of parameters and values for CLI commands, see the CLI Command Reference.

• This topic explains how to list recommendations using the Cloud Advisor API.

  Use the ListRecommendations operation to list recommendations.