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Way of reporting workload optimization tasks & savings that aren't in scope for Cloudability Rightsizing

We’ve found a gap in how we report workload optimization savings that Cloudability doesn’t cover today. If an optimization is not a Rightsize Opportunity in Cloudability, then we cannot create a ticket, and so Rightsize ROI does not count the savi...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

When scrolling through reports in BI and Cloudability Standard, keep the view tab frozen on the page.

It disappears when a user scrolls which can confusion for what view is shown, especially if a default view is attached, and the user is unaware of what the default view is.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

RCG wants Apptio to natively support OU-level AWS tags (like “map_migrated”) instead of relying on workarounds such as Lambda-based replication, to avoid operational complexity and potential data integrity issues.

SITUATION: RCG wants to know why certain OU‑level AWS tags (e.g., “map_migrated”) are not appearing in Apptio despite being enabled in AWS cost allocation. STATUS: Currently, Apptio doesn't support importing OU level tags. SOLUTION: Implement an a...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

The new Commitment Portfolio column preference feature is limited in flexibility and requires further enhancement.

Allow users to fully customize and persist their preferred column selections within the Commitment Portfolio view, ensuring that these preferences are saved across sessions and can be tailored to different organizational needs.
16 days ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Cloudability data ingestion should not be permitted to fail silently

If Cloudability fails to pull in our billing data on any given day (or for many days straight), it provides no alert, email, event notification, or UI display to inform the user that not all of their data is being presented in the Cloudability too...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Add IP Restrictions to API Usage

Currently once an API key has been created, the user can run APIs from anywhere, personal laptops, outside of the US, etc. This is very concerning to our Security folks. It would be beneficial if we could add an IP Restriction to the APIs to limit...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Other Planned for future release

Obfuscation of API keys

As a security lead, I want the API key to be obfuscated on all pages which would display it, with the reveal only after a separate button is triggered on the page So that keys are not shown to other users when a user initially opens up the page
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Update Required - Greater Access control on API

Access control provided to admins for API is non existent on Apptio. I would like to have a feature where API is enabled for just admins and they can disable apis for all users. Even better will be if admins can disable API for specific users and ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Other Future consideration

Send report to external email

Enable to send report by email for users not registered in Cloudability Frontdoor. Nowadays scheduled reports are sent only using subscription function what demands to create an user and that user is responsible to manage the schedule. Frequently ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Other / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Enable the API support to update the position ordering of the already existing Account Groups so they can be reordered without manual UI changes

FinOps teams that manage Cloudability through automation need the ability to control the display order of Account Groups programmatically. Currently, the Account Groups API allows the position attribute to be set during creation, but there is no r...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted