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Vendor Credentials and Integrations

Auto-detect historical CUR changes and refetch

Currently, Cloudability’s one-month lookback window for AWS CUR changes creates a "data drift" between the cloud provider's billing truth and the FinOps platform. AWS frequently applies retroactive adjustments—such as EDP credits, refund correctio...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Automate Advanced Credentials for new accounts under set up credentialed Payer

We implemented our process to apply the approriate permissions to all new accounts in the payer. But we still need to verify new accounts in the API or UI. Bulk actions is a step in the right direction to allow multiple accounts at a time. But for...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Ability to see status of subscriptions in Cloudability

This will. help us see if the Subscriptions in Azure are active, disabled or deleted
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Add integration with Okta

Add integration with Okta.As written in the FAQ page, "Currently Entra ID is one of the most widely used IDP (Identity Provider). There are many other IDPs such as Okta, PingIdentify. At present, we’re only supporting Microsoft Entra ID (aka Azure...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Refetch should retain account level tags for active/decommissioned accounts

Customer has noticed that after a refetch their account level tags for decommissioned accounts (AWS/Azure/GCP) disappeared. This behaviour is, since account-level tags are not fetched from CUR files and are instead retrieved via API calls, Cloudab...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Allow for Azure Memor Metrics collection via Azure Monitor Logs

Microsoft will be depreciation Memory collection via the Azure Diagnostics extension. This will require the use of a monitor agent and Azure Monitor. Customer already has memory collection using Azure Monitor Logs. Since this isnt current supporte...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Adjust UI for vendors to remove unecessary red X permissions

Many customers think that their credentialling is broken when they see red X in the UI. A good example of this is in GCP, in the billing account bigquery.jobs.create and bigquery.tables.getData are the only two things needed, everything else is in...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Cloudability should be able to automatically archive deleted accounts

Cloudability has access to our billing account and to the API to query additional information. There should be a capability within Cloudability to automatically archive accounts that do not exist no more. Currently those accounts are grouped toget...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Add Databricks cluster names to Cloudability for Databricks GCP

Cloudability Databricks GCP connector is not bringing in Databricks cluster names. As result it is difficult to use Cloudability to understand which Databricks GCP cluster contributed to costs. Cloudability shows Databricks Azure cluster names. Da...