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title: "Savings | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Identify and analyze Kubernetes cost savings opportunities"
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# Savings

The **Savings** tab has these panels:

- Optimized CPU allocation: The amount you could have saved if all unused CPU cores had been deprovisioned over the selected time range
- Reduced memory overhead: The amount you could have saved if all unused RAM had been deprovisioned over the selected time range
- Reclaimed storage waste: The amount you could have saved over the selected time range by:
  
  - Removing deleted unattached volumes
  - Resizing oversized disks
  - Archiving infrequently accessed data to lower-cost storage tiers
- Optimized GPU allocation: What you could have saved by optimizing GPU resources over the selected time range

[Savings panels on the **Savings** tab for a 30-day time frame](/media/docs/grafana-cloud/k8s/savings-tab.png)

You can use this information to:

- Easily prioritize where to start optimizing.
- Correlate with deployments, traffic patterns, or configuration changes to understand changes like a memory waste spike.
- Create a case for optimization work.
- Determine cost-benefit analysis to answer whether it’s worth engineering time to optimize resources.

Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on [the **Savings** tab](https://play.grafana.org/a/grafana-k8s-app/cost/savings?from=now-30d&to=now&refresh=1m&var-cluster=%24__all&timezone=utc).

[Try it](https://play.grafana.org/a/grafana-k8s-app/cost/savings?from=now-30d&to=now&refresh=1m&var-cluster=%24__all&timezone=utc)

## Get details and recommendations

On any panel, click **View recommendations** to see a detail of potential savings.

[Savings panels on the **Savings** tab for a 30-day time frame](/media/docs/grafana-cloud/k8s/savings-detail.png)

On any row, click the **Grafana Assistant** icon to get specific recommendations on savings for the Cluster.