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The name of a hierarchical BM should be changed

As of now, we are unable to rename the hierarchical BM. If you need to change the name of a Hierarchical Business Mapping, you would likely need to delete the existing one and create a new one with the desired name.
20 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Delivered

Ability to Search All Dashboards

It would be helpful to be able to search the list of all Dashboards, similar to the search feature on Reports.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards Delivered

UI Experience- Select multiple dimensions at once

This is regarding selecting multiple measures at once using checkboxes in the filter dropdown, eliminating the need to add each item individually. But the problem we have now is unable to select multiple dimensions at once
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Delivered

Show Latest Forecast Estimate: Actuals + Forecast

It would be very useful to be able to compare Forecast and Estimate, where the Forecast can comprise actuals data for completed months, as opposed to the original forecast. This would give a more helpful Forecast Variance position where the "Lates...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning Delivered

Alert when net savings become negative

I can set alerts when a commitment drops below a set threshold percent but I want to know when ANY commitment becomes negative in net savings. Is this feature available and hidden or does it need to be a new feature?
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Delivered

RFE for direct integration between Apptio Cloudability and Snowflake to collect and view granular usage/costs (credits) data based on object tagging.

Granular details at account levels, service levels, service types, and rate usage types, billing types, etc. is required for cost/credit attribution, as well as for the entire organization and/or product teams to view their respective credit consu...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Delivered

Automatic Sync for EntraId Groups

Customer would like ability to automatically sync Entra ID Groups.
5 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login Delivered

Bring Your Own S3 Bucket Support for IBM FinOps Agent (Containers Metric Deployment)

The IBM FinOps Agent currently requires outbound connectivity to transmit container metrics, which presents challenges for private or highly regulated Kubernetes environments. We propose introducing a “Bring Your Own S3 Bucket” (BYOS3) deployment ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting Delivered

Container Cost Allocation Filters for Kubernetes Labels need to support all operators to help teams get insights on K8S clusters that have labels with similar or dissimilar values (Contains, Not Equals, Does Not Contain)

We have teams use Kubernetes labels that follow patterns to help them group similar clusters together (for example: MFG-A1, MFG-A2, ...). The current Filter for Labels on Container Cost Allocation only support the "equals" operator which causes a ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting Delivered

Add support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets in Rightsizing

Please add support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) rightsizing recommendations, this is a very common deployment option for virtual machines, much like ASG's in AWS. Not having rightsizing support is a big gap in what is common to be a...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Delivered