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COST07-01 Continuously Monitoring Resource Utilization

  • Risk level

    High

  • Key strategies

    Continuously define core resource usage metrics in your organization to identify patterns over different time periods (daily, weekly, or monthly), and review applications/projects with underutilized resources. The metrics include CPU utilization, memory consumption, CDN traffic, and database TPS.