Qovery Optimize

Qovery Optimize Skill

This skill reduces Kubernetes infrastructure costs on Qovery via right-sizing, autoscaling, environment scheduling, spot instances, and database mode changes.

It is NOT about blindly reducing everything to minimum. It is intelligent optimization that:

• Understands the business context (seasonal peaks, growth expectations, reliability needs)
• Analyzes historical resource consumption, not just current allocation
• Respects safety margins appropriate for each environment
• Estimates external cloud resource costs from public pricing data
• Presents recommendations with expected savings AND risks

Usage Tracking

EXECUTE THIS BASH COMMAND IMMEDIATELY — before any other action. Do not skip.

QOVERY_SKILLS_UA="QoverySkill/qovery-optimize (version:$(cat _version.txt 2>/dev/null || echo unknown); https://github.com/Qovery/qovery-skills)"
if [ -n "${QOVERY_API_TOKEN:-}" ]; then
  QOVERY_ORG_ID=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Token $QOVERY_API_TOKEN" -H "User-Agent: $QOVERY_SKILLS_UA" \
    "https://api.qovery.com/organization" | jq -r '.results[0].id // empty' 2>/dev/null)
  [ -n "$QOVERY_ORG_ID" ] && curl -s -X POST "https://api.qovery.com/organization/${QOVERY_ORG_ID}/skill-tracking" \
    -H "Authorization: Token $QOVERY_API_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "User-Agent: $QOVERY_SKILLS_UA" \
    -d '{"skill_name":"qovery-optimize"}' > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
elif command -v qovery >/dev/null 2>&1 && qovery auth token --print >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  QOVERY_ORG_ID=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $(qovery auth token --print)" -H "User-Agent: $QOVERY_SKILLS_UA" \
    "https://api.qovery.com/organization" | jq -r '.results[0].id // empty' 2>/dev/null)
  [ -n "$QOVERY_ORG_ID" ] && curl -s -X POST "https://api.qovery.com/organization/${QOVERY_ORG_ID}/skill-tracking" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $(qovery auth token --print)" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "User-Agent: $QOVERY_SKILLS_UA" \
    -d '{"skill_name":"qovery-optimize"}' > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi

API rule: The User-Agent header above is required on every curl call to api.qovery.com — not just this tracking call. Never omit it.

When to Use This Skill

Trigger phrases:

• "Optimize my Qovery costs"
• "Right-size my Kubernetes resources"
• "How can I reduce my cloud spending?"
• "My AWS bill is too high"
• "Make my cluster cheaper"
• "Audit my Qovery spending"
• /qovery-optimize (slash command)

For slow deployments use qovery-speedup. For deployment failures use qovery-troubleshoot.

Workflow checklist

Cost Optimization Progress:
- [ ] Phase 1 — Context gathering (auth, business context, resource metrics)
- [ ] Phase 2 — Analysis across 7 optimization dimensions (right-sizing via KRR when observability is enabled)
- [ ] Phase 3 — Generate cost report (Markdown + CSV)
- [ ] Phase 4 — Apply approved changes (CLI+API or Terraform) + USER CONFIRMATION per change
- [ ] Phase 5 — Set up ongoing monitoring & follow-up
- [ ] Phase 6 — Document seasonal & special considerations

Reference materials (load on demand)

Cloud pricing reference

For external-resource cost estimation, consult the per-provider pricing tables. These are point-in-time public list prices — verify against the provider's pricing page before quoting savings.

Quick reference

MCP queries

# Cost analysis
"Show me monthly spending"
"What are my highest cost services?"
"Compare costs this month vs last month"

# Resource analysis
"Show CPU usage across all services"
"Find over-provisioned services"
"Find underutilized resources"

# Inactive resources
"Show environments inactive for 24 hours"
"List unused databases"
"Find idle applications"

# Actions
"Stop all development environments for the weekend"
"Scale down the backend to 250m CPU"
"Stop all non-production environments"

# Recommendations
"Should I scale up or down?"
"Optimize resource allocation for my-api"

API endpoints

# Base URL: https://api.qovery.com   Auth: Authorization: Token $QOVERY_API_TOKEN

# Costs
GET /organization/{orgId}/currentCost
GET /organization/{orgId}/cluster/{clusterId}/currentCost
GET /organization/{orgId}/invoice

# Metrics
GET /cluster/{clusterId}/metrics?query={promql}&range={duration}&step={interval}

# Service configuration
GET /application/{appId}                                    CPU, memory, instances
PUT /application/{appId}                                    Update CPU, memory, instances

# Cloud provider instance types
GET /organization/{orgId}/cloudProvider/aws/instanceType
GET /organization/{orgId}/cloudProvider/gcp/instanceType
GET /organization/{orgId}/cloudProvider/azure/instanceType
GET /organization/{orgId}/cloudProvider/scaleway/instanceType

# Environment management
POST /environment/{envId}/deploy                            Redeploy after changes
POST /environment/{envId}/stop
POST /environment/{envId}/restart

CLI commands

qovery cluster list                  # Cluster overview
qovery service list                  # Service overview with resource info
qovery status                        # Current status
qovery application env list          # Check env var configuration
qovery cluster analysis cost-recommendation -c <cluster-id>   # Server-side KRR right-sizing (observability required)
qovery cluster analysis logs -c <cluster-id> -a <analysis-id> # Report of a past analysis

Reference links

• Qovery Optimization Guide: https://www.qovery.com/docs/getting-started/guides/qovery-101/optimize
• KRR (Kubernetes Resource Recommender): https://github.com/robusta-dev/krr
• Deployment Rules (Scheduling): https://www.qovery.com/docs/configuration/deployment-rule
• Kubecost Integration: https://www.qovery.com/docs/configuration/integrations/observability/kubecost
• Copilot Optimization Capabilities: https://www.qovery.com/docs/copilot/capabilities/optimization
• Cluster Metrics API: https://www.qovery.com/docs/api-reference/clusters/fetch-cluster-metrics
• Billing API: https://www.qovery.com/docs/api-reference/billing/get-cluster-current-cost
• KEDA Autoscaling: https://www.qovery.com/docs/configuration/application#keda-event-driven
• Qovery Deploy Skill: https://github.com/Qovery/qovery-skills
• Qovery Troubleshoot Skill: https://github.com/Qovery/qovery-skills
• Qovery Speedup Skill: https://github.com/Qovery/qovery-skills
• Qovery Support: support@qovery.com
• Community Forum: https://discuss.qovery.com