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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...
22 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...
23 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.
23 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

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 ...
about 1 month 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...
about 2 months 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 ...
about 2 months 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 ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Dimension access

Would be good if we could access all the dimensions available in different areas ie. dashboards and resource inventory have different dimensions available, would be great to have access to all regardless of which section you are in
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Would like the ability to hide dimension and metrics from users or user groups

We have many instances where we are developing new business metrics or dimensions. While these are being tested, it would be helpful to hide these from our users. Presentaly we name them with 'DoNotUse' and then need to reprocess when we finalize....
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

API for Multi-Currency Configuration

Rather than having to use the GUI to upload the latest exchange rates via the 'Multi-Currency Configuration' option and then requesting for the rates to be applied, it would be more efficient if we were able to make the update via an API call. Thi...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration