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Resource Inventory

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Hourly breakdown of usage data for AWS and Azure

Useful to get usage trends of our instances in order to track shutdown in nbh, trends on hourly usage, etc.
about 20 hours ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Include actual field names for metadata in the Resource Inventory Extract

Currently, the Resource Inventory csv extract shows only generic ("Tag 42") field headings. The actual field headings ("Cost Center") are available in the UI, and these same headings should appear in the csv extract, otherwise the exported data is...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Expiring RI for RDS, add column for Engine type

For expiring RDS RIs, it would be very useful to have the engine added to the table that is sent via email subscription.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Include AWS Lambda Functions with detailed metadata in Resource Inventory

We would like to request the inclusion of AWS Lambda functions in the Cloudability Resource Inventory, along with relevant metadata such as runtime version, memory size, timeout configuration and associated tags. This would enable improved visibil...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Add ‘last seen’ date to Resource Inventory.

Problem:Right now the resource inventory has the resource state, but for terminated resources there is no way to tell when the resource was terminated. Request:To provide visibility into what time frame the resource inventory data represents and w...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

To include more services under Azure.

Omnicom Team would like to include more services under Resource Inventory -> Azure. Currently, only Compute, Managed Disk and Database services are available under services dropdown in Resource Inventory section for Azure.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Submitted

Enable vCPU Usage Metrics for Azure in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability supports vCPU tracking for AWS and GCP, but Azure data lacks this metric. Since vCPU is crucial for Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and overall FinOps decision-making. Without this feature, Azure customers lack vis...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Add CPU count and memory metrics to go along with instance types.

Withe the instance type information, adding a CPU count and total memory should be a easy metric addition that maps to the instance types. CPU count would be very helpful for licensing requirements.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Azure and GCP utilization metrics needed in Reports in Dashboard in Cldy and ABI

Many customers have a need for utilisation metrics for Azure and GCP in Cldy - its been called out as a feature deficit for years. Its needed for customers so they can dive deep into longer term (like over a year) metrics util on instances to see ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Provide a Concurrent Count of VMs

This will help determine an accurate count of non-ephemeral workloads, which will help with software licensing requirements etc.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted