[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"

The following two sections Explore the System and Explore the Workflow are optional as this guide is more focused on analyzing the output of an already executed study more than illustrating how to set it up in the first place. Another guide focuses on how to create an Optimization Study using the UI and another guide on how to create an Optimization Study and supporting artifacts using the CLI.

The lower part of the Study page shows the Summary:

• the best score, that is -49.1% with respect to the baseline

• the optimization goal & constraints (see here below)

• the selected KPIs (see section Explore Results in this guide)

• the optimization scope, that is the JVM and Kubernetes parameters which have been tuned

The optimization goal & constraints can be inspected by clicking on "Details" (and expanding the subsections):

• the goal has been set to minimize the application cost

• three constraints have been set to ensure that in the best configuration the metrics for the application response time, transaction throughput and error rate do not differ more than 10% from the respective values in the baseline configuration.