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Cloudability

On account (subscription) closure or suspension in Azure or AWS, provide functionality to automatically archive or delete the vendor credentials (user selection).

Useful: This is useful for anyone that works in an environment where change management is difficult (most large enterprises) and being able to specify a setting to automatically scavenge (cleanup) close accounts or subscriptions would save a lot o...

Look Back Further when Determining Anomalies

There are costs that occur on a monthly basis. Look back 60+ days in order for the system to utilize monthly seasonality
1 day ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection Submitted

Support for Custom S3-Compatible Object Storage Endpoints for Cost Data Ingestion

IBM Apptio Cloudability currently supports ingesting billing and usage data from the native object storage services of the major hyperscalers: Amazon S3 (AWS) Azure Blob Storage Google Cloud Storage Many enterprise customers, however, util...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Submitted

Service Now Integration - Support for custom tables

As of now, Cloudability Rightsizing does not support custom tables serviceNow integration. We only support incidents, requests, and ticket types that are extension of requests. The suggestion is to include the the custom tables we have in Service ...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Submitted

Allow admins to bulk-create budgets across multiple views and set up email alert subscriptions on behalf of users

Currently, budgets are scoped at the individual View level, so organizations tracking budgets per application (e.g., 100 applications) must create a separate view for each one. There is no bulk or templated way to create budgets across many views ...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Submitted

Enable Azure Disk Reservation Recommendations within Commitments

Extend the Commitments capability in Cloudability to include Azure Managed Disk reservation recommendations. The feature should analyze disk usage patterns, identify consistently utilized disks eligible for one-year reservation terms, and provide ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

IBM customer facing documentation for Azure EA to MCA migration

Create a dedicated IBM customer-facing documentation, or add a new section to the existing Cloudability Azure documentation, that guides customers through the steps required when migrating their Azure billing account from an Enterprise Agreement (...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Submitted

Add more column to the UI for Advanced Rightsizing

When doing an csv export of the Advanced Rightsizing, there are columns that are not exposed in the UI that are in the file. For example date created and date since first discovered. The idea would be to make these column optional but possible to ...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

In the rightsizing there isn't an option to select multiple rows and close the cloudability issue but requires one-by-one.

Using the rightsizing tool, we created cloudability issues and have to close each one manually not able to select multiple and close all based on a view. Would be helpful to allow closing the issues in bulk.
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

In the rightsizing the policy only allows for 100 maximum results to assess to create an issue or incident.

By only allowing 100 maximum results, only 100 are tracked based on the one policy created. We have to have a issue/incident in order to get realized savings. Limiting to 100 requires lots of additional policies to be created and still limits to 1...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted