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Cloudability

Expose upload-health metrics (success/failure/retry/last-success) on the FinOps Agent's Prometheus /metrics endpoint

Container costs are a core part of our overall cloud spend, so we depend on the FinOps Agent uploading reliably to Cloudability. Today the agent's /metrics endpoint (metrics.enabled=true) only exposes generic Go runtime/process metrics (go_, proce...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Kubecost/Advanced Containers Submitted

Add Coverage Threshold to Commitment Alerts

Currently, commitment alerts only cover expiring commitments and utilization thresholds. However, Coverage is also an important KPI that customers would want to be alerted on. Please consider adding support for Coverage-based alerts as well. Thanks!
3 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Allow filter for "Invoice Date" within a "Dashboard"

This is useful for many reasons. Here is what prompted this idea request: 1. Cross-charge reconciliation - Applying "Invoice Date" as a filter to the entire dashboard will allow us to immediately reconcile invoiced costs for a given month. We can ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

To add in the Column Section in the Rightsizing Section the Potential Carbon Reduction for a specific Recommendation

To add a Column in the Rightsizing section an optin to see the Potential Carbon Reduction for any specific recommendation provided in Cloudability. Since this Potential Carbon Reduction is being provided by CSP's billings, this could be implemente...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Out of the box field for Country that maps regions

There are many regions across the globe that customers can deploy their infrastructure. It would be good to have an out of the box field that maps each region to the country where the infrastructure is. All that is needed is to use the Region fiel...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Share the configuration of the table in rightsizing

As a customer I'd like to share the table customization I have done with colleagues to have a similar experience across all users
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Have a longer lookback period than 30 days

Lots of seasonalities in the resources and 30 days is too small
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Export the charts from the rightsizing details

As a customer I'd like to be able to export the rightsizing charts in the detail section to have a better understanding of the fluctuation of the resource. The chart is currently too small to get the subtleties of the changes, especially for azure...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Add recommendations for AWS FSx

Looking for a recommendation that minimizes waste from over provisioned storage and throughput for AWS FSx. Please comment which variant of FSx your organization uses.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

Add fiscal-year and prior-year date range options

Our organization frequently compares performance across fiscal years. The date picker should provide additional predefined ranges, including: This Fiscal Year Last Fiscal Year Same Period Last Year These options would simplify fiscal-year and year...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration