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Data Mapping and Organization

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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...
about 8 hours ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

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.
about 14 hours ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 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...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Metric to show the exchange rate being used when showing costs in a currency other than $

At present there is already a dimension called 'Exchange Rate' but it displays a static value of 1. Can this value be correctly filled with the current exchange rate being used to display values in Cloudability. For example in Cloudability we disp...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Allow to change order of tags

Cost anomaly alerts capture first 5 tags in its notification. We want to get the most critical tags to appear in the alert mail which are not positioned in first 5 under 'Tags & labels'. I don't find any option to change the order of the tags....
9 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

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 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Make Legal Entity from AWS Available in Cloudability Reporting

AWS includes a field LegalEntity lineItem/LegalEntity The Seller of Record of a specific product or service. In most cases, the invoicing entity and legal entity are the same. The values might differ for third-party AWS Marketplace transactions. P...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Enhanced Financial Transparency & Real-Time Reconciliation - Financial Integrity and Operational Efficiency - reconciliation automation

Roadmap Proposal: Enhanced Financial Transparency & Real-Time Reconciliation Problem Statement The current cloud cost reporting lacks a direct lineage between billing line items and actual inventory transactions. This creates a "black box" dur...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Show cloud native naming schema

I need to see the cloud specific naming for services such as SQL managed instance vs SQL Server and SQL database instead of the generalized fields. This makes it much easier to review spend with the application owners and understand which resource...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Add Chipset/Type to the data available for reports and dashboards

bring in an chipset/type related field from the CUR – “product_physical_processor”. This allows customers to evaluate usage of things across chipset across instance types. Currently this has to be managed with a custom business metric that has to ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted