# Including or excluding operational recommendations
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AWS Resilience Hub provides an option to include or exclude the alarms, SOPs, and AWS FIS experiments (tests) that were recommended for improving the resiliency score of your application at any point of time. Including and excluding operational recommendations will have an impact on the resiliency score of your application only after you run a new assessment. Hence, we recommend you to run an assessment to get the updated resiliency score and understand its impact on your application.

For more information about restricting permissions to include or exclude recommendations per application, see [Limiting permissions to include or exclude AWS Resilience Hub recommendations](include-exclude-limit-permissions.md).

**To include or exclude operational recommendations from applications**

1. In the left navigation menu, choose **Applications**.

1. In **Applications**, open an application.

1. Choose **Assessments** and select an assessment from the **Resiliency assessments** table. If you don't have an assessment, complete the procedure in [Running resiliency assessments in AWS Resilience Hub](run-assessment.md) and then return to this step.

1. Select **Operational recommendations** tab.

1. To include or exclude operational recommendations from your application, complete the following procedures:

**To include or exclude recommended alarms from your application**

1. To exclude alarms, complete the following steps:

   1. Under **Alarms** tab, from **Alarms** table, select all the alarms (with **Not implemented** state) you want to exclude. You can identify the current implementation state of an alarm from the **State** column.

   1. From **Actions**, choose **Exclude selected**.

   1. From **Exclude recommendations** dialog, select one of the following reasons (optional), and choose **Exclude selected** to exclude the selected alarms from the application.
      + **Already implemented** – Choose this option if you have already implemented these alarms in an AWS service such as Amazon CloudWatch, or any other third-party service provider.
      + **Not relevant** – Choose this option if the alarms do not suit your business requirements.
      + **Too complicated to implement** – Choose this option if you think these alarms are too complicated to implement.
      + **Other** – Choose this option to specify any other reason for excluding the recommendation.

1. To include alarms, complete the following steps:

   1. Under **Alarms** tab, from **Alarms** table, select all the alarms (with **Excluded** state) you want to include. You can identify the current implementation state of the alarm from the **State** column.

   1. From **Actions**, choose **Include selected**.

   1. From **Include recommendations** dialog, choose **Include selected** to include all the selected alarms in your application.

**To include or exclude recommended standard operating procedures (SOPs) from your application**

1. To exclude recommended SOPs, complete the following steps:

   1. Under **Standard operating procedures** tab, from **SOPs** table, select all the SOPs (with **Implemented** or **Not implemented** state) you want to exclude. You can identify the current implementation state of an SOP from the **State** column.

   1. From **Actions**, choose **Exclude selected** to exclude the selected SOPs from your application.

   1. From **Exclude recommendations** dialog, select one of the following reasons (optional), and choose **Exclude selected** to exclude the selected SOPs from the application.
      + **Already implemented** – Choose this option if you have already implemented these SOPs in an AWS service, or any other third-party service provider.
      + **Not relevant** – Choose this option if the SOPs do not suit your business requirements.
      + **Too complicated to implement** – Choose this option if you think these SOPs are too complicated to implement.
      + **None** – Choose this option if you don't want to specify the reason.

1. To include SOPs, complete the following steps:

   1. Under **Standard operating procedures** tab, from **SOPs** table, select all the alarms (with **Excluded** state) you want to include. You can identify the current implementation state of the alarm from the **State** column.

   1. From **Actions**, choose **Include selected**.

   1. From **Include recommendations** dialog, choose **Include selected** to include all the selected SOPs in your application.

**To include or exclude recommended tests from your application**

1. To exclude recommended tests, complete the following steps:

   1. Under **Fault injection experiment templates** tab, from **Fault injection experiment templates** table, select all the tests (with **Implemented** or **Not implemented** state) you want to exclude. You can identify the current implementation state of a test from the **State** column.

   1. From **Actions**, choose **Exclude selected**.

   1. From **Exclude recommendations** dialog, select one of the following reasons (optional), and choose **Exclude selected** to exclude the selected AWS FIS experiments from the application.
      + **Already implemented** – Choose this option if you have already implemented these tests in an AWS service, or any other third-party service provider.
      + **Not relevant** – Choose this option if the tests do not suit your business requirements.
      + **Too complicated to implement** – Choose this option if you think these tests are too complicated to implement.
      + **None** – Choose this option if you don't want to specify the reason.

1. To include recommended tests, complete the following steps:

   1. Under **Fault injection experiment templates** tab, from **Fault injection experiment templates** table, select all the tests (with **Excluded** state) you want to include. You can identify the current implementation state of the test from the **State** column.

   1. From **Actions**, choose **Include selected**.

   1. From **Include recommendations** dialog, choose **Include selected** to include all the selected tests in your application.