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Cloudability

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.
12 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

Report exports should show business mapping names as column headers rather than reference IDs

When a business mapping field is used as a dimension in a report, the mapping name shown in the UI does not get passed through the exported report. Instead the column name would be something like 'category1'. This is really annoying and potentiall...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Delivered

Provide the ability to Archive Linked Accounts which havent been Advanced Credentialed and have been removed from CSP

Provide the ability to Archive Linked Accounts which havent been Advanced Credentialed and have been removed from CSP. These accounts show up in UI with Red X, which gives the appearance that not all of the accounts have been Advanced Credentialed...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Delivered

Commitment Support Azure Blob Storage

A reservation covers storage capacity for Blob storage and Azure Data Lake Gen2 storage. The reservation doesn't cover bandwidth or transaction rates. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 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

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

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

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Delivered