[AIAS-01] Explore the Study

Access the Akamas-in-a-sandbox (AIAS) environment and select "Studies" from the left-hand-side menu.

Select the preloaded "Authentication service - minimize K8s cost" study.

The Summary tab displays high-level study information at a glance, including the best score obtained so far, a summary of the optimized parameters, and their values for the best configuration.

At first look, the higher part of the Study page shows:

• the ID of the Study - this can be used to run commands against this specific study

• the System under test, that is "Auth Service"

• the workflow used to run experiments against this system, that is "Auth Service"

In the lower part of the Summary tab you can see:

• the best score, that is the best result achieved in the optimization with respect to the baseline, according to the specified goal

• the optimization goal & constraints (see here below)

• the selected KPIs (more on this layer in the Explore Results section)

• the optimization scope, that is the number of parameters that Akamas tuned in this study

Akamas is a goal-driven optimization solution, meaning that you can specify the goal you want to achieve, including your application performance and reliability constraints. If you click on the "Details" button in the Goal card, you can see that:

• the goal has been set to minimize the application cost, which is a metric representing the cost of the K8s deployments under optimization, based on CPU and memory requests

• three constraints have been set to ensure that cost is reduced but application performance and reliability are not impacted. In this case, application response time, transaction throughput and error rate do not differ more than 10% from the respective values in the baseline configuration.