Fastly Cost Optimization
OhChimp reads your Fastly usage and billed invoices to rank bandwidth by region, flag fast-rising egress, and break down traffic by service.
What OhChimp optimizes for Fastly
Some of the cost levers OhChimp checks for Fastly. Each one becomes a reviewable plan you approve before anything changes.
Bandwidth concentrated by region
Fastly charges on traffic, and most of it usually lives in a few regions. OhChimp reads usage by month and ranks every region by bandwidth in GB so you can see exactly where the egress concentrates before you decide what to trim.
Regions with fast-rising egress
A region whose bandwidth is climbing month over month is where your next bill increase lands. OhChimp pro-rates the prior month to the same elapsed window for a like-for-like run-rate, then flags any region growing more than 25% so you confirm it is expected traffic and not a misconfigured path.
Traffic by service
One noisy service can dominate a Fastly account. OhChimp joins the usage breakdown to your service list, ranks your top services by bandwidth, and reports their request counts, so you can pin rising traffic to the property that caused it.
Request volume per region
Requests bill separately from bandwidth on Fastly. OhChimp reports request counts alongside GB for each region, so you see whether a region is heavy on transfer, heavy on request volume, or both.
Real billed invoice totals
Fastly pricing is contract-based and not published as per-GB list rates, so OhChimp attaches no estimated dollar figures to usage. When your token has billing access, it reads your latest billed invoice from the Invoices API and reports the real total and currency, so usage growth and actual spend sit side by side.
Worked example
For example, say OhChimp reads your Fastly usage and finds bandwidth concentrated in two regions, with one of them up more than 25% month over month on a run-rate basis, traced to a single video service in your breakdown.
It surfaces that region and service in a reviewable plan with rollback steps, alongside your latest real billed invoice total for context. You press apply on the change you decide to make. Because Fastly rates are contract-based, OhChimp attaches no estimated dollar figure to the usage. OhChimp cannot yet measure what a single Fastly plan saves either, so it does not mark one VERIFIED.
Fastly cost optimization FAQ
How does OhChimp connect to Fastly?
With a read-only API token sent in the Fastly-Key header. OhChimp verifies it against GET /current_customer, so a global-scope read token is enough. It then reads usage by month per region and per service, and your latest billed invoice when the token has billing access.
Does OhChimp need write access or see my data?
No. OhChimp uses a read-only token and reads usage and billing metadata only: bandwidth in GB, request counts by region and service, and billed invoice totals. It never stores application data, secrets, or workload contents.
What Fastly costs can OhChimp actually reduce?
It pinpoints where traffic concentrates: bandwidth and requests by region, your top services by bandwidth, and regions whose egress is rising more than 25% month over month. Because Fastly pricing is contract-based, OhChimp reports real billed invoice totals from the Invoices API rather than estimating dollars from usage.
Who applies the changes, and can they be rolled back?
You do. Each fix is a reviewable plan with a confidence score, a risk level, and rollback steps. Nothing changes until you click apply, and you are always the one who clicks.
How are Fastly savings verified, and what does it cost?
OhChimp attaches no dollar figure to Fastly usage, and it cannot yet measure what a single Fastly plan saves, so it does not mark one VERIFIED. The only savings OhChimp measures today come from lowering the CPU and memory requests of a Kubernetes Deployment, StatefulSet, or DaemonSet. Pricing is flat monthly, OhChimp never takes a cut of your savings, and paid plans include a year-one ROI guarantee that lets you request a refund of your first 12 months of subscription fees if the verified savings on your Costs tab fall short of them. Estimated savings do not count.
Related integrations
Teams running Fastly usually run these too. OhChimp finds the waste in each and drafts every fix as a plan you approve.
Cloudflare
Plan fit, bandwidth, and add-on usage
CircleCI
Compute credits, parallelism, resource classes
Temporal Cloud
Actions, retention, and namespace usage