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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 ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

updating Hierarchical Business Mapping via API using a CSV upload

Automating the management of Hierarchical Business Mappings (HBM) in Cloudability would save significant time and reduce the risk of errors associated with manual updates. Currently, updating HBMs requires manual intervention in the UI, which is i...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Under review

Add a new Cloudability Vendor Dimension to map the CUR value "Seller of Record"

In Cloudability, under the vendor section there are two different fields that helps in identifing costs based on: - Vendor: which maps the CUR vendor field (like AWS, Azure, GCP) - Seller: which maps the CUR BillingIdentity field (like AWS, AWS Ma...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Under review

Databricks meta tags must be enabled in Cloudability

Databricks meta tags must be enabled in Cloudability because Databricks explicitly relies on tags to enrich usage data, and our internal governance and FinOps frameworks require these tags to correctly correlate Databricks workloads with AWS resou...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

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 ...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Hierarchical mappings - Request for increasing the supported layers to 6

The customer already has mappings set up for cost centres, application owners, and other structures, and have expressed a need to for drilling down further to the respective Line of Business (LoB) or Class of Business, which effectively requires v...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Identify, similar to AWS and Azure tags/labels, where GCP LABEL values are being defined by prefixing the GCP Label KEY with that information

(I use tags and labels interchangeably, but i do mean that we use GCP Labels) For AWS, account level tags/labels are prefixed like: cldy:aws:accountleveltag:cost_center. For Azure subscription level tagslabels are prefixed like: cldy:azure:subscri...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Cloudability should be able to read standardized CMDB data from the enterprise Data Lake

At present, Cloudability supports reading data from several data sources, but Data Lake is not one of them. Shell uses Cloudability Premium, and needs to read CMDB data that is residing in a Data Lake, and is refreshed there frequently.
16 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Support for GCP Cost (List)

Users need metrics to behave consistently across services and vendors. Cost (list) ideally reflects public, On demand pricing for usage but that is not the behavior on GCP. Please support Cost (list) in GCP consistently across all servicesr like i...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review