Critical System Capacity Review Checklist

When to use this

Use this checklist for periodic review of capacity risks in critical systems, cloud services, networks, databases, and support teams.

Related controls

• A.8.6 Capacity Management
• Capacity Monitoring and Forecast Register

Checklist

• Current utilization reviewed.
• Peak utilization reviewed.
• Storage growth reviewed.
• Network or gateway bottlenecks reviewed.
• Database sessions/query performance reviewed where relevant.
• Cloud quotas/autoscaling/cost limits reviewed.
• Backup, logging, and monitoring capacity reviewed.
• Staff coverage and on-call load reviewed.
• Capacity-related incidents/problems reviewed.
• Action plan updated.

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