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Reports, Dashboards

Enable the ability to embed Cloudability reports, dashboards, or scheduled report outputs as images directly within email notifications, rather than requiring recipients to open PDF attachments. Optionally, allow customers to choose between: Image embedded in email body, PDF attachment, Both image and PDF attachment

Many executive stakeholders consume Cloudability reports through scheduled email distributions. Currently, reports are primarily delivered as PDF attachments, which require recipients to download and open a separate file. This enhancement would ge...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Provide a notice when sharing Reports and Dashboards to Entire Organization

Provide a warning or notice when sharing dashboards to Entire Organization. The report or dashboards audience may not need to be the entire org. Its additionally helpful for when shard as view only, when the user leaves, and shared nobody has the ...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Enable granular Datadog cost ingestion and reporting within Cloudability to provide detailed visibility into Datadog spend, usage drivers, and cost allocation.

Customers with significant Datadog investments currently have limited visibility into Datadog costs within Cloudability. While overall spend can be tracked, the lack of granular cost and usage data prevents customers from analyzing Datadog expendi...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Ability to use OR with multiple Dimensions in Dashboard/Report filters

It would be helpful to be able to be able to build filters with multiple dimensions and OR statements. For example: Account Name = Account X OR Tag 1 = NEW Currently the only way to do this, is to create a Business Dimension/Mapping and then use t...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Enable hourly granularity data filtering capability in Cloudability for enhanced reporting and dashboard creation.

Currently, Cloudability reporting and dashboard capabilities are limited to daily/monthly/yearly,-level granularity for most operational and cost analysis use cases. This enhancement request is to enable hourly granularity filtering and reporting ...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

% of Total Cost Metric

I had an engineer ask if it was possible to create a metric that shows a line item as a percentage of total cost. For example, being able to show that SQL licensing accounts for x percentage of the projects total spend. Or any dimension as a perce...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

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 ...
27 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 ...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Request for AI Token ID and Invocation Metadata Visibility in Cloudability

Request to enhance Cloudability support for AI service billing metadata by ingesting and surfacing token level identifiers from CSP billing files wherever available. Use Case:Customers are increasingly adopting AI services such as AWS Bedrock, Azu...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

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