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My ideas: Data Mapping and Organization

Enable granular Datadog cost ingestion and reporting within Cloudability to provide detailed visibility into Datadog spend, usage drivers, and cost allocation.

Customers with significant Datadog investments currently have limited visibility into Datadog costs within Cloudability. While overall spend can be tracked, the lack of granular cost and usage data prevents customers from analyzing Datadog expendi...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Expose GCP Credit Type as a native reporting dimension and attribute

GCP detailed billing exports provide credit specific metadata, including Credit Type and Credit Name, within the Credit column. While Cloudability surfaces credit amounts and descriptions, the native Credit Type field is not currently available as...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

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...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

SyncAwsEc2Volume: Attached and Unattached time

Business Case We are requesting a Cloudability enhancement to expose attached time and unattached time for EC2Volume resources. Today, storage cost visibility shows what we are spending, but not how long a volume was actually in use versus sitting...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 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 ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Under review

Support Reporting for Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) Multiple Billing Profiles

Lots and lots of customers are migrating from EA to MCA agreements and one of the features of this migration is to define billing profiles as part of the allocation methodology. Currently Cloudability cannot report on cost and usage based on these...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Planned for future release

Automatically ingest all cloud tags from AWS/Azure into Cloudability and use them as-is without creating Cloudability Dimensions manually.

The customer would like Cloudability to automatically ingest and expose all AWS and Azure tags for reporting and analysis without requiring manual mapping or configuration. With thousands of cloud resources and frequently changing tags, maintainin...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

API Endpoint for Tag & Labels

There are currently API Endpoints for Business Mapping, Business Metrics, Users management, etc, but Tags & Labels can only be actioned via the UI. This means we are unable to mirror the Production and Test environments quickly and systematica...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Option to change the date format in the tool from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY.

Yorkshire Building Society mentioned that it would be simpler for them, if there was an option to choose/customize date format in the tool from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY to match the format being used in their organization.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration