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Reports, Dashboards

Add effective rate and 30 day options to rightsize widgets

Current rightsize widgets are limited to 10 day cash values. I don't imagine many Cloudability customers do not have private pricing or reservations. Effective rate is the only useful metric for my organization and it's not an option. It would be ...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Filter Metric and Dimension Availability based on User Credential

The volume of available metrics and dimension can be overwhelming for the average user, who likely need just a small subset. For example, its possible to have 6+ different cost metrics available to use in reporting - it's likely users should just ...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Enable Centralized Report Subscriptions and Dashboard Standardization Across Multiple Users

Customers have requested the ability to configure report subscriptions and standardized dashboards centrally for multiple users or groups, rather than requiring configuration at the individual user level. Currently in Cloudability, report subscrip...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Multi-currency functionality within Cloudability

The customer would like to use two currencies in Cloudability. For example, the Australia Azure tenant should report in AUD, while the Hong Kong data should report in HKD. Currently, we are using the Business Metrics feature, but it only works for...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Integration of Commitment Recommendation Metrics into Reporting

There is currently a critical data gap in the Reporting modules. While the UI provides a "Commitment Recommendation" tab, these specific metrics are not available as selectable metrics or dimensions within the report builder.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

static dashboard (webpage)

A standalone, shareable static dashboard (webpage) that external users can access without needing a Cloudability account, allowing them to view their own cost data directly
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Improvement in the API for Efficient Pagination and Enhanced Data Precision

Currently, we are facing challenges in data extraction via the API due to excessive granularity and technical limitations. The API in JSON format supports pagination; however, the data is too granular, making efficient extraction difficult. On the...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Cloudability Access Logs / Report views by user

Much like how Apptio Costing has a usage project within an environment, The customer would like something similar for Cloudability / BI. Customer would like the ability to see which users are viewing which reports and at what rate (ex: John Doe vi...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Option to hide/disable Cloudability metrics

Providing an option to hide or disable Cloudability Metrics would deliver additional customer value by giving organizations greater control over which metrics are exposed in their environments.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Remember/Default pivot for table widgets

When you define a table widget and select a desired pivot the later is not saved, this becomes inconvenient when you have a dashboard with multiple tables that require the same pivot. The desire is to be able define a default pivot when creating a...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration