Optimizations
Understand savings opportunities and action workflow.
Understand savings opportunities and action workflow.
## What this page is for
Use this page when you need to understand what the Optimizations surface does in Kadryn, how it supports the operating workflow, and how it connects to the rest of the product.
## Who should use it
- FinOps users who need operational visibility. - Engineering and platform teams that own AI workloads. - Admins who configure workspace rules, access and governance. - Executives or finance stakeholders when the page supports review or reporting.
## What you can see
- Opportunity cards
- Savings potential and realized savings
- Risk and confidence context
- Links to costs and guardrails
## What you can do
- Review opportunities
- Simulate or sandbox changes
- Track action progress
- Prepare summaries
## Permissions and plan access
Visibility and editability can differ. Kadryn can show a read-only or locked view when the workspace plan, billing state or role does not allow mutation. Treat UI locks as guidance and backend guards as the source of truth.
## How to use it
- 1. Open the matching Kadryn menu.
- 2. Confirm the workspace, time range, environment and filters.
- 3. Review the summary cards before acting on individual rows.
- 4. Use filters to isolate the relevant project, provider, team, owner or status.
- 5. Open details before making a governance, billing or operational decision.
- 6. Verify the result through the linked Costs, Alerts, Guardrails, Developers or Audit surface.
## How Kadryn uses this data
- Uses cost drivers, usage patterns and governance signals
- Separates proposed savings from realized savings
- Connects recommendations to safe rollout workflows
## Common mistakes
- Treating a summary card as the source of truth without opening the detail view. - Confusing product entitlements with provider billing. - Editing a setting without checking the affected scope. - Comparing environments without confirming metadata quality. - Ignoring stale, missing or synthetic data indicators.
## Troubleshooting
- If data is missing, check Developers → Logs & Traces and Costs → Data Health. - If an action is disabled, check your role, plan and billing state. - If a policy or cap blocks traffic unexpectedly, inspect Guardrails → Policies and Developers → Logs & Traces. - If counts look wrong, verify filters, archived/deleted toggles and the selected time range.
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