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Quick preview for business mappings

When changing a business mapping, I would love to see a preview of what the results would look like when the change processes. Instead of waiting to need for a reprocess to be complete, this would at least let me validate the change is performing ...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Decouple Business Metric reprocessing from Business Dimension reprocessing.

Why is it useful? Currently, "Reprocessing" is a destructive action for historical data integrity. FinOps practitioners often need to create new efficiency KPIs (Business Metrics) and apply them to historical data to spot trends. However, because ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Distinct count of days(Date) metric to assess age of a resource

This would be useful in analysing aged resources such as backups/snapshots or ignore resources that were only alive for a short period of time. this would speed up analysis as we have to extracts daily data to then summarise for our analysis.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Creating documentation for the terminologies used by apptio

Please create documentation for mapping terminologies between Mongo Vendor and Cloudability. It will be useful for a better understanding for the enduser to differentiate between what is present in the invoice and what apptio bi uses. This will cl...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Help & Training 0 Submitted

updating Hierarchical Business Mapping via API using a CSV upload

Automating the management of Hierarchical Business Mappings (HBM) in Cloudability would save significant time and reduce the risk of errors associated with manual updates. Currently, updating HBMs requires manual intervention in the UI, which is i...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Submitted

Add a new Cloudability Vendor Dimension to map the CUR value "Seller of Record"

In Cloudability, under the vendor section there are two different fields that helps in identifing costs based on: - Vendor: which maps the CUR vendor field (like AWS, Azure, GCP) - Seller: which maps the CUR BillingIdentity field (like AWS, AWS Ma...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Include a newly available dimension from AWS: Source AMI ID in Utilization dimensions

The Source AMI of an EC2 would heavily compliment the regular AMI (already available). This would allow teams in our organisation to track EC2 builds and the source deployed from compliant images. This should now be a new dimension available to ma...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Exact Reconciliation of Monthly Costs in Apptio BI

Consistently showing incorrect Invoice amounts for GCP and Azure when looking at amortized costs (and total costs in the case of GCP). In every case, the cost metric for a given month should tie out to the cost invoiced by the cloud provider at th...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Inclusion of CPU and Memory Utilization data into BI reporting

Currently no available data for resource utilization in Apptio BI. COIN can be shown using the "Cloudability Rightsizing" data source but that is subjective to recommendations given by the system. Turbonomic is pulling CPU and Memory utilization d...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Immediate refresh of updated plan data in CFP to Apptio BI

Currently when plans are updated in CFP, changes are updated after the overnight refresh into Apptio BI. It would be useful to have a refresh to BI kicked off as soon as plans are updated to limit the down time required to make changes to BI reports.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted