Optimization settings and descriptions

StormForge optimization settings, by category

This topic lists and describes the optimization settings that you can configure in StormForge.

To set these values, use annotations as described in any of these topics: Configure clusters, Configure namespaces, or Configure workloads.

To view settings for individual workloads in the StormForge UI, click Workloads in the left navigation; then, click a workload name in the list and then click the Settings tab.


Annotations

All available annotations for StormForge configuration

Optimization goal

Savings, Balanced, or Reliability tradeoff for recommendations

Schedule

When StormForge generates recommendations and how long they stay valid

Apply settings

Enable automatic deployment, configure the learning period, set optional thresholds to skip low-impact recommendations, and choose an apply method

Reliability response

Respond to OOM and CPU pressure events with a temporary resource bump-up

CPU and memory

Optimization policy, limit-to-request ratio, and bounds for CPU and memory

HPA

Configure how StormForge interacts with HPA-managed workloads

Runtime

Max heap size settings for Java workloads

Pod scheduling

Scheduling optimization policy for node affinity recommendations

Last modified October 15, 2026