Production operations solutions

    Find the resources you may be paying for unnecessarily.

    A test database may be as large as production even though it is rarely used. Operate compares the available usage information with the settings and suggests what your team should check before changing capacity.

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    Why this takes time.

    Production-sized staging systems, unused resources and capacity added during incidents can stay in place long after the original need. A larger bill does not explain which allocation is safe to change.

    What Operate needs to check.

    Connect usage and configuration sources for the agreed environments. A quiet observation period is not proof that a resource is unnecessary. Cost decisions require workload context and a rollback plan.

    Review deployment and access boundaries

    A staging database is provisioned at production size

    Illustrative example. Findings depend on connected systems and available evidence. Proposed changes require engineer review.

    Starting point

    A recurring cost review compares allocated capacity with available utilization evidence.

    What the agent checks

    • Inspect the staging resource configuration.
    • Review utilization across the available observation period.
    • Check whether test schedules or peak workloads explain the allocation.

    What the team receives

    DevOps validates test peaks, restore requirements and the chosen instance type before changing the environment. Savings should be estimated using the actual provider price and configuration.

    Finding

    The staging database appears underused relative to its provisioned capacity. The agent proposes a smaller configuration for review, with the observation period made explicit.

    infrastructure/staging-database.patch
    - instance_class: production_size+ instance_class: reviewed_staging_size

    Illustrative artifact. Review before applying changes.

    Try a problem you have already solved.

    Connect the systems used in a problem your team has already solved. Ask Operate to investigate it, then compare the answer with yours. Check the evidence and the suggested change before using it for more work.

    Explore the production workspace

    Which plan covers this?

    Monitor includes cost reviews within defined scope at $299 per workspace per month. Managed operations can include engineer-led follow-through under a separate agreement.

    Bring your own key or model with no Operate token surcharge. Operate-managed AI usage is additional: $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens.

    Compare plans and usage terms

    Questions about cloud cost review.

    Does Operate guarantee a savings percentage?

    No. Savings depend on your infrastructure and the changes you approve. Recommendations should be evaluated against actual usage and provider costs.

    Will it shut down idle resources?

    No. Operate proposes changes for review. Engineers decide whether and how to apply them.

    Can your engineers help implement recommendations?

    Managed operations can include agreed implementation work alongside your team. Responsibilities and coverage are defined in the engagement.

    Related production workflows

    Production root cause analysis

    Investigate production errors across logs, code and data with Operate. Review supporting evidence and a proposed patch before changing production.

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    Database performance

    Use Operate agents to review database performance, investigate expensive query patterns and propose changes with supporting query and code evidence.

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    Production security review

    Review production access configuration with Operate agents. Investigate exposure risks and inspect proposed configuration changes before applying them.

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    Slack and Teams investigations

    Use Operate in Slack or Microsoft Teams to investigate unexpected product behavior using logs, code and production data, with evidence and proposed next steps.

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    Production knowledge library

    Operate automatically generates verified knowledge articles from root causes. Teams can manually manage, edit and verify articles for future production investigations.

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    Need engineers to help handle the work? Explore managed operations.