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Version Control Improvements for Business Mappings

Apptio Costing and Planning has a native version control that allows a monthly table to retain schema, layout, etc. from 1 time period to another (between versions). Cloudability's business mapping today requires users to add "Date" and manually s...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Enable Dashboard Creation and Management via API in Cloudability

Enable customers to create, configure, and manage Cloudability dashboards programmatically through APIs. This capability would allow API-first customers to automate dashboard creation and integrate Cloudability reporting into their existing workfl...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

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

Surface the GCP Project Number as a vendor dimension

We are wanting to surface the Project Number as it aligns with AWS/Azure Account ID/Subscription ID. It is a stable and system-controlled unique identifier which doesn't allow confusion between GCP Project Name and GCP Project ID which are often s...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

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 ...
7 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...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Add the “Creation Date” dimension for snapshot analysis

I would like to kindly ask if it would be possible to add the “Creation Date” dimension for snapshot analysis. Including this dimension would provide us with a more detailed and accurate view of the data, enhancing the effectiveness of our analysis.
25 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

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

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...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted