Automation savings

Overview > Savings shows what automation saved your organization, in dollars and hours, for the last 30 days, 90 days, or past year. It is built for the person who approves the budget: one total, the ten runbooks and workflows that saved the most, and a table with every one.

For each runbook and workflow:

1. Gardience counts the machines it finished. A machine that failed counts for nothing, because it saved nobody any time.
2. It multiplies that by the minutes a person takes to do the same work on one machine by hand.
3. It turns the minutes into hours and multiplies by your engineer's hourly cost.
4. If you set what automation costs per hour, it takes off the hours the run took times that cost.

The total is the sum for every runbook and workflow in the period.

Admins set three numbers on the page:

• Engineer cost per hour: the loaded hourly cost of the person who would do the work by hand. It is the same number as Administration > Settings > Savings model.
• Minutes a person takes per machine, by hand: used for every runbook and workflow unless you set it for one. The default is 10.
• What automation costs per hour: optional. Leave it at 0 if you do not count it.

To set the minutes for one runbook or workflow, change its number in the Minutes per machine by hand column. It saves when you leave the box. Every change is in the audit log.

Export CSV downloads the table for the period you are viewing, with the totals and the numbers used, ready for a spreadsheet or a report.

• Dashboard
• Workflows and approvals
• Runbooks