# Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer Reviews **Vendor:** Pepperdata **Category:** [Cloud Cost Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-cost-management) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 39 ## About Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer is the only real-time, automated cost optimization solution for Spark workloads that can immediately save you up to 47%. By instructing the scheduler to consider the actual resource utilization instead of allocated resources, Capacity Optimizer reclaims waste, maximizes resources utilization, and optimizes autoscaling in the cloud. It operates autonomously, continuously, and in real time to reclaim application waste. ## Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **performance optimization** of Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer, noting significant savings and increased efficiency. (4 reviews) - Users benefit from the **significant cost savings** of Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer, achieving efficiencies that pay for themselves quickly. (2 reviews) - Users benefit from **efficient resource management** with significant savings and dedicated support from Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer. (2 reviews) - Users benefit from significant **cost savings** with Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer, achieving savings of up to 75% on resources. (2 reviews) - Users value the **advanced analytics** capabilities of Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer, enhancing job performance and monitoring effectively. (1 reviews) - Users highlight the **cost-effectiveness** of Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer, delivering savings that often cover its cost quickly. (1 reviews) - Cost Reduction (1 reviews) - Users commend the **exceptional customer support** of Pepperdata, enhancing their experience and successful migration to EKS. (1 reviews) - Customizability (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **clear and customizable dashboards** of Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer for effective performance management. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users note a **lack of automation** for optimizing settings, requiring multiple adjustments for workload efficiency. (1 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve steep** , making it difficult for less experienced developers to use Spark tuning effectively. (1 reviews) - Users struggle with **learning difficulties** in utilizing Spark tuning recommendations effectively due to limited expertise and time constraints. (1 reviews) - Users note the **limited availability** of supported tools with Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer, impacting overall usability. (1 reviews) - Users find the **limited tool support** hinders the full potential of Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer's performance. (1 reviews) - Limited Reporting (1 reviews) - Poor Recommendations (1 reviews) ## Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer Reviews ### 1. PepperData- a tool for performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** akash v. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** Pepper data is great tool for reviewing all spark job's statuses and manage from the application. These days we are also using tool to check and enhance performance of our jobs , It is a great tool to work with! It has the graphs, charts and metrics which helps you a lot to check the performance of the the jobs. It also tells you the utilization of queue, CPU, Cores, and server. you can create/customize your own dashboard and Alarms. It also has the feature the create and publish the analytic reports for further investigation. **What do you dislike about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** It should provides detailed error logs and the recommended fix whether code needs to be fix or configuration needs to me tweaked. More utilization insights if possible. Live Customer service via chat in the future if possible. It should have the email notification service which can be triggered everytime when there is any Alarm. **Recommendations to others considering Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer:** It is currently being used across a department with access to a certain set of applications and is used to see the performance of the Jobs. I highly recommend to explore this tool if not using already. **What problems is Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer solving and how is that benefiting you?** All jobs can be monitored from one dashboard, we know which job is taking longer time and the CPU/Memory consumption. Hence we can change to code to improve the performance. With metric trend graphs, public status pages, dashboards and side-by-side comparisons Pepperdata helps you clearly visualize performance data and compel action. It also helps us to manage our servers and their configuration. **Official Response from Andy Gremett:** > Akash, Thanks for the great suggestions. Could you please specify which utilization insights you would like to see in the future? Please contact Info@pepperdata.com if you are willing to discuss further and let us know how to reach you. Regarding email alerts, we have alarms and alerts like what you describe, here’s the help documentation: https://help.pepperdata.com/nav-pd-if/08-alarms-alerts/ Thank you for the suggestion about the logs. We don’t have anything right now at that level. I have shared your feedback with our product team for review. ### 2. Great Easy to use Product. A must for ETL and Big Data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** Capacity Optimizer is a simple easy to implement - easy to use application that will save you money right from the get go. Right out of the box you will see a 10 to 15 % savings. The support is top notch - they go above and beyond in getting the most out of the product. This is a no brainer for any Big Data workload. **What do you dislike about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** The Pepperdata team works closely with you to answer and problems you may have. I have not had any serious problem that would make me not use it **What problems is Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost Savings - We have seen a significant cost savings Visiblity - We have more visiblity than what AWS gives us with Pepperdata ### 3. Saves a lot of money in hardware. Helps find bottlenecks. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** Capacity optimizer fits more containers on the cluster than would normally run without it. Custom alarms allow us to trap and notify problem users and processes in Spark/Yarn. The dedicated support we get from Pepperdata is top notch. **What do you dislike about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** A lot of our developers are not advanced enough to take advantage of spark tuning recommendations. Or are not given the time to tune their applications **What problems is Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Delayed hardware purchases. Proactive impala problem monitoring. Proactive notification to users about problematic apps. Suggestions on how to fix. Recently, Capacity Optimizer helped me find a new (and problematic) application on the cluster. We were able to throttle it down so it did not impact others. **Official Response from Andy Gremett:** > Hi, If you are interested in more detail, we can point you to some of our webinars on Spark tuning and Spark recommendations. https://www.pepperdata.com/technical-webinars/ ### 4. Saved 75% cost on EMR **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul C. | Senior Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** The capacity optimizer helped us to reduce the wastage on EMR clusters and increased the efficiency. For one of the clusters - the savings was as big as 75%. For others we are seeing atleast 30% savings. **What do you dislike about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** Needs fine tuning multiple times, I would love to see some automated feedback in place to recommend the right set of settings based on the workloads. **What problems is Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost optimization ### 5. Sr Director, Big Data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** Capacity Optimizer and APM insight. Product provides great value insight and cost savings to the point where it pays for itself within months or sooner for some. **What do you dislike about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** Cloud performance is great, however the number of tools/products that are supported are limited. **What problems is Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost optimization and code optimizations. Allows for wasted capacity to be leveraged. **Official Response from Ashish Sahu:** > Thank you for the review. We're ecstatic to hear about your cost savings and how the Capacity Optimizer is practically paying for itself! One of the main goals of our platform is helping you realize a reduction in cloud costs, and we’re happy to have satisfied that. We also appreciate your feedback about the limited support for the number of tools — we are expanding our product offerings and plan to share updates shortly. ### 6. Improves spark report performance and saves overall compute spend. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Benjamin S. | VP Technical Operations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** The ease of installation, great dashboards for cost and capacity visibility. **What do you dislike about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** Wish we could use it on our other applications! **What problems is Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lowering our overall cost. ### 7. Save money on your big data workloads **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lee G. | Video Course Creator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** The capacity optimizer has been proven to save a lot of money. What I like best about the product, though, is the support we have received throughout our journey of migrating our EMR clusters from EC2 to EKS. **What do you dislike about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** There are still some features that need to be worked out for EMR on EKS and EMR Notebooks, but the Pepperdata team is actively working on these. These are relatively new offerings, so it's not surprising that there is still some work that needs to be done. **What problems is Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer solving and how is that benefiting you?** The optimizer's main benefit is cost savings on compute, specifically with workloads running on EMR. ### 8. Good for visualization. Need more details and understanding 9f.how the optimization works **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nachiket K. | Senior Software Engineer - DevOps, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** The visualization is good with clear uncluttered dashboards and metrics analyser **What do you dislike about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** Optimizer does not work always. Details on how the optimizer works is not so clear. **What problems is Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Optimizing kubernetes resource usage for data pipeline infrastructure ### 9. Pepperdata review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** I like the fact that Pepperdata has hundreds of metrics which are highly customizable. At the same time you can create your own metrics. Moreover, it provides valuable information about the jobs being run. **What do you dislike about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** Cant think of any downsides at the moment **What problems is Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It really helps with identifying jobs that are wasting memory and helps us reduce the cluster size without affecting the jobs, hence reducing overall cost **Official Response from Andy Gremett:** > Thank you for taking the time to share your review. ### 10. Pepper data actually provides a good graphical view of your infra capacity **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajith S. | Lead Site Reliability Enginner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** It's used in our company and best recommended **What do you dislike about Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer?** For now - No disadvantage has been identified **What problems is Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It can re- scale the pods based on capacity ## Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer Discussions - [What is Pepperdata Cloud Performance used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-pepperdata-cloud-performance-used-for) - [View Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/pepperdata-capacity-optimizer/reviews/pepperdata-capacity-optimizer-review-4607479?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-29+14%3A40%3A08+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a6539e43-4ec4-4a51-bb5d-4bed6f4055ae&secure%5Btoken%5D=39ca4174e398ec559626ee584d8024985c77ef30f78ba03fc10094fd9c032f20&format=llm_user) ## Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer Features **Operations** - Automation - Multi-Cloud Management - Usage Monitoring **Functionality** - Cloud Consolidation - Cloud Orchestration - Cloud Optimization **Assessment ** - IT Infrastructure - Cost Benefit - Applications **Automated resource scaling** - Automatic resource discovery - Smart scaling **Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration **Cost Optimization** - Spend Forecasting and Optimization - Recommendations - Spend Tracking **Management** - Cloud Cost Analytics - Cloud Security - Cloud Resource Management - Cloud Backup and Recovery **Scaling strategies** - Pre-defined optimization strategies - Predictive scaling **Administration** - Reporting - Dashboards and Visualizations - Compliance **Visualization** - Unified scaling - Dashboard **Agentic AI - Cloud Management Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Cloud Cost Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Pepperdata Capacity Optimizer Alternatives - [Datadog](https://www.g2.com/products/datadog/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (694 reviews) - [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudwatch/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (362 reviews) - [Google Compute Engine](https://www.g2.com/products/google-compute-engine/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (875 reviews)