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Cost Allocation and Sharing

Preview of Telemetry Data Instead of Needing to Download It

It would be great if I could preview what my telemetry data looks like to see which days I have telemetry data for or not instead of needing to download the csv file. 
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

Cost allocation, usage data for RHEL RI on Azure

Currently, RHEL software RI utilization and cost savings data are not available in Cloudability. It would be helpful to have this capability enabled so that we can gain better visibility into RHEL RI utilization, cost savings, and the specific res...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

While rolling out Cost Sharing in Cloudability, XP found a gap in how telemetry data is kept up to date. The current process works for a one-time setup, but it does not scale for recurring updates.

Current process to update existing telemetry Extract the telemetry data from Azure Data Explorer (ADX). Generate a CSV file from the query results. Manually upload the CSV to Cloudability. Monthly refresh: for example, a metric for August ...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

Ability to identify

Currently OCI Exadata databases are purchased similar to commitments, where blocks are reserved and paid for like a commitment expense e.g. microsoft sentinel. The actual Exadata units can be tagged, but produce 0% cost and there's no usage visibi...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

Scope Cost Sharing by Payer

Cost Sharing currently distributes shared costs across all/selected Business Mappings, regardless of which payer account incurred the cost. In multi‑payer, multi‑cloud environments, this leads to incorrect allocations. Add the ability to scope Cos...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing

Allow cost sharing of transactions up to 3 years back, within "Cost Sharing & Telemetry"

Hello, Within "Cost Sharing & Telemetry", we need to be able to share costs that occurred three (3) years ago. Our internal accounting requires specific rules dividing these costs for each yearly accounting period. For example, our goal is acc...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

Upload Business Mappings via CSV

For many financial teams creating business mappings in the UI is cumbersome and they lack the skills to be able to create JSON. Its been requested that we should provide the ability to upload Business Mapping statements via CSV to Cloudability.
12 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Future consideration

We should get Missing tags count number as per project id level for GCP and On Resource Group level for Azure.

Our requirement is to obtain counts of missing mandatory tags at the project level for GCP and at the resource level for Azure, in accordance with organizational tagging standards. However, the TAM team has confirmed that this capability is curren...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

Microsoft Azure MAAC Discounts are not available in the Cloudability

Currently, we are able to create reports for AWS EDP discounts, but not for Azure MAAC discounts. When we look at the Rate Optimization KPI, our goal is to show the discounts we receive from the CSP using Cloudability or Apptio BI. Although this i...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

Have a global settings that exclude the AWS Tax

Have in the global settings an option to exclude tx (such as AWS Tax) from all dimensions/metrics. This would allow customer to avoid using BM to exclude the tax. It would be nice that this condition, if enabled, is applied when the cur is processed.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

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