Capacity Planning
Capacity planning determines future resource requirements from historical trends and business forecasts, ensuring sufficient capacity and avoiding overload.
Purpose
Plan resources ahead to meet growth, avoiding capacity-shortage failures.
Mechanism
Collect historical metrics (QPS/resource utilization/latency). Forecast growth trends. Determine per-request resource consumption. Compute required capacity plus safety margin (peaks/failover). Review and adjust periodically.
Use cases
- Resource planning
- Cost control
- Performance assurance