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Show snoozed recommendations comments in API call

When doing an API call for snoozed recommendations a great feature would be to also receive the comments left on the resource as well as the user who left those comments. This can be used as control as well as general understanding of reasons to s...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Provide public API to update Rightsizing ROI tickets or add comments

One of my customer in inquiring if we can enable or consider enabling write access for cloudability API V3. When it comes to rightsizing ROI data, the cloudability API V3 is read only, which is preventing them from adding comments or updating entt...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Add additional timeline 60 days, 90 days to Rightsizing recommendations

Users would like to have a better understanding of their workload utilisation (containers in particular) before being able to make a decision to rightsizing. Additional timeline options such as 60days & 90days would be helpful for them to make...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Adding sustainability metrics to rightsizing recommendations

There is strong evidence industry wide that a large percentage of engineers are more likely to take action based off carbon emission reduction recommendation than cost. ( largely as engineers may not have a budget responsibility as part of their r...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Filter Enhancement - ROI Rightsizing, Rightsizing - Upgrade Filters

Enhance filters for ROI tickets within the ROI Rightsizing module & from within report module. As a FinOps practitioner required to report on adoption rates & realized savings, I need to be able to: report on ROI tickets actioned during sp...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Exclude No action recommendations

When we look at data in the rightsizing panel we often see recommendation with the recommendation 'no action' (in all scenario's whether we are using 10/30 days and on-demand/effective rate. We like to filter out this data from the rightsizing pre...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Cloudability RightSizing Snooze auditability

As a Cloudability Admin I'd like the RightSizing Snooze functionality improved from an Audibility perspective: - who instigated the snooze itself - when was the snooze enabled - add a comment field to explain the decision Bell provided feedback: T...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Include Disk USED vs Provisioned as a rightsizing recommendation

As a new rightsizing opportunity, for customers who have enhanced CW metrics enabled on their EC2 instances could we look to including a capability to check the actually utilized disk vs what was provisioned, eg: you're only using 10GB of a 1TB pr...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Increase limit for Rightsizing Policies.

In my org, we have multiple projects, as such have hit the maximum number of Rightsizing Policies CLDY allows us to create.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Include more services under RightSizing preferences

Currently you can only do few customisations for filtering the recommendations in EC2 and S3, we want more services under the preferences umbrella so that we can customise what we want in the recommendations in a better way.For Example: we don't w...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration