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Data Mapping and Organization

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Decouple Business Metric reprocessing from Business Dimension reprocessing.

Why is it useful? Currently, "Reprocessing" is a destructive action for historical data integrity. FinOps practitioners often need to create new efficiency KPIs (Business Metrics) and apply them to historical data to spot trends. However, because ...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Enablement of the untaggable spend for GCP in Tag explorer of Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability Tag Explorer provides clear visibility into untagged spend and tag coverage gaps for AWS and Azure. However, similar visibility is missing for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), particularly for spend that is technically untaggab...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Quick preview for business mappings

When changing a business mapping, I would love to see a preview of what the results would look like when the change processes. Instead of waiting to need for a reprocess to be complete, this would at least let me validate the change is performing ...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Allow Hierarchical Business Dimensions to contain mapping file values without character restriction

Certain dimension values contained in a HBM mapping file fail on upload as the characters aren't accepted by the system. This causes a problem for the user if their source system contains these characters. An example is commas, which are rejected ...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Enable customers to upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to automatically create or update Business Mapping statements with built-in validation and one-click rollback

Today, users cannot upload Excel/CSV/JSON files directly in the UI to create or update Business Mapping statements.Because of this limitation CSMs/TAM/Admins must manually convert customer files into statements. Large Business Mapping updates (doz...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 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...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 2 Future consideration

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Use fuzzy match on tags and label names for assigning to dimensions

Sometimes similar tags or labels are created that follow a pattern, it would be useful to be able to use fuzzy logic in finding matching tags and labels. For instance "clustername" it could be within "karpenter.sh/discovery/ClusterName" or aws:Clu...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Support a broader range of Cloudwatch GPU metric configurations for bringing to Cloudability

Customers use their collected Cloudwatch metrics for their own purposes in addition to making them available to Cloudability. It's useful to collect individual GPU metrics for each instance so that they can see if there are any idle GPUs (rather t...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Create business mapping dimensions dynamically

I'd like to be able to create business mappings dynamically. For example, using regular expressions to dynamically create new business mappings each time an expression is matched. I would be much easing rather than create a specific statement for ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Future consideration