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Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Add Resource Name to GCP Resource Inventory (Compute Engine)

Resource Name is needed to ensure clear identification of GCE resources in Cloudability Resource ID which comes from GCP billing data is not clear enough (it looks more like a path and it doesn't contain the resource name) Resource Name field is c...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Disk usage metric for EBS and GPD

Currently we cannot look at the disk usage data for EBS and GPD, most of the disks are over provisioned and we pay for what we allocate than what we use. Cloudability is showing these metrics for RDS in AWS, why cant we do it for EBS and GPD with ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Create a DL option for Anomaly Detection Alerts

As FinOps Analysts, we are receiving anomaly alerts that need to be forwarded to FinOps champions in each business unit. We aim to automate the distribution of these alerts to various stakeholders. Therefore, anomaly alerts should be filtered by b...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 1 Planned for future release

Enable vCPU Usage Metrics for Azure in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability supports vCPU tracking for AWS and GCP, but Azure data lacks this metric. Since vCPU is crucial for Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and overall FinOps decision-making. Without this feature, Azure customers lack vis...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Add more resources for Sustainability Reporting

Currently, Cloudability supports a limited set of resources in sustainability reporting, including only Azure Compute (non-GPU), Managed Disks, and Managed Databases. This restricts customers from gaining comprehensive insights into their sustaina...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Other / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Planned for future release

MultiCurrencyService - have latest conversion table at top of list ie: date descending order

When a user is working with conversion tables it would be a better solution to have the conversion tables in date descending order with the latest at the top.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Planned for future release

Include actual field names for metadata in the Resource Inventory Extract

Currently, the Resource Inventory csv extract shows only generic ("Tag 42") field headings. The actual field headings ("Cost Center") are available in the UI, and these same headings should appear in the csv extract, otherwise the exported data is...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Support multi currencies between Cloudability and Turbonomic

Support multi currencies between Cloudability and Turbonomic
7 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Planned for future release

Add GPU Utilization metrics in Cloudability

We have a subscription owner whose application uses only N-type VMs (GPU-Optimized VMs). They mentioned that the relevant metric for them is GPU utilization. However, GPU utilization is not currently available as a metric in Cloudability. In the f...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Planned for future release