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Data Mapping and Organization

Out of the box field in reporting for IaaS, PaaS, etc.

It would be really impactful for my customers to be able to quickly separate their IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS vs other spend by service. Today this can be done with a business mapping but is not the best of use of a BM.
21 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

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

Cloudability Business Mappings for Resource Count

We would like to add Resource Count as a business metric in Cloudability Business Mappings. However, it's not possible for now because it is a runtime variable metric. Resource Count is highly important for us to track consumed resources besides c...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

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

ServiceNow Integration

If you are adding the ServiveNow iintegration yout need to add more Bbusiness ddimensions.We are maxed out and can't use the integration isf we don't get more business dimensions.
3 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

Direct query access to native cloud billing fields

Cloudability currently abstracts and normalizes all billing data from providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. While this enables unified cost visibility, it limits users' ability to validate and interpret data in "like-for-like" terms with the orig...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

RCG wants Apptio to natively support OU-level AWS tags (like “map_migrated”) instead of relying on workarounds such as Lambda-based replication, to avoid operational complexity and potential data integrity issues.

SITUATION: RCG wants to know why certain OU‑level AWS tags (e.g., “map_migrated”) are not appearing in Apptio despite being enabled in AWS cost allocation. STATUS: Currently, Apptio doesn't support importing OU level tags. SOLUTION: Implement an a...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

API endpoint to manage Tags

As Cloudability admin I would like to be able to retrieve, create, update and delete cloudability tags programmatically as well of to be able to retrieve available vendor tag keys for the mappings so I can keep track of changes to these in a infra...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Enable Cloudabiltiy to ingest Databricks account pricing

Enable Cloudability to ingest Databricks pricing based on our contracted rates, including: Contracted DBU rates (not list pricing) Clear indicators for prepaid vs. pay‑as‑you‑go usage Amortization of committed Databricks spend Separation of comput...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

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