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Cloudability

Idle Resources Namespace Labels Available in Cost Reporting

In Cloudability Cost Reporting, idle cluster costs are aggregated into a synthetic IDLE RESOURCES namespace row. This row does not carry any namespace-level Kubernetes labels and all label columns show (not set), even when the underlying real name...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Expand the size of the Cloudability Dashboard Level Filter display box

This would allow for better visibility to what filters are available since it truncates causing confusion on what filter to select.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

Support Azure credentialling from the Management Group and Tenant Root level instead of per-subscription

In a large, dynamic Azure environment with tight security and strong separation of duties, getting a subscription owner every (frequent) time to click a link to add "advanced features" credential for a new subscription is very onerous. Add an opti...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Under review

Vendor Credentials "advanced features" status should distinguish between no, some, and all permissions present

Currently, Vendor Credentials reports green status if any, even just one, of the necessary permissions are present, and reports red only if no permissions are present.  This is especially noticeable in Azure credentials.   Because Clouda...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Under review

Automated tracking of OpenShift Licensing Costs

Customers leverage Kubecost to help understand the total cost of ownership of their kubernetes clusters. For customers who use Red Hat OpenShift, a key component of these costs is the licensing fees. While customers today can leverage the CSV manu...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Kubecost/Advanced Containers Under review

Automated Report Delivery to Amazon S3

Enable the automated delivery of scheduled IBM Cloudability reports directly to a user-configured Amazon S3 bucket to streamline data integration and archival processes. Currently, retrieving reports often requires manual intervention or individua...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

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...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Support for GCP Cost (List)

Users need metrics to behave consistently across services and vendors. Cost (list) ideally reflects public, On demand pricing for usage but that is not the behavior on GCP. Please support Cost (list) in GCP consistently across all servicesr like i...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Named Custom Date Ranges for Reporting

Today, users can choose from standard absolute and relative date ranges (Last 7 Days, Month to Date, custom start/end dates, etc.) within each widget's or the UI's Time period selector. This is powerful but introduces friction for organizations wh...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

Need broader insight into rightsizing opportunities

There are a lot of opportunities to save that Cloudability does not inform users about. Some of them are difficult to find without collecting information, merging data, comparing options. This is the work Cloudability does for EC2, RDS, etc. Why n...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Under review