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Cloudability

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Customizable metric multiplier / threshold for rightsizing recommendation

In some production enviroments, workloads are intentionally overprovisioned to allow for burst capacity, stability or failover requirements.In most cases this is has to do with compliance and regulations bound apps. We propose addig a metric multi...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Make user access granting process more straightforward

The process required for gaining access to Cloudability for the first time is overly complex, not intuitive and not what one would expect from a SaaS tool from a user perspective. In order to gain fully-fledged access, including to views permittin...
4 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Add Unit of Measure as a Dimension in Cloudability

While Usage Quantity is a metric, the corresponding Unit of Measure if not a dimension that is surfaced in Cloudability. Without Unit of Measure, it is not always possible to tell what is being measure/billed in Usage Quantity (hour, GB, core, etc...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

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...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted

Enable the view of Plan name from IBM CSV billing file

We are looking to get the data about the instance type / family / Category to create reports to track GPU usage in IBMC via Cloudability.As much as I looked the Plan name contain this data that will enable us to create that report. Because this vi...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Update mappings instantly

When creating a Business Mapping or Business Metric, it is necessary to wait 24 hours for the metrics to be populated, causing delays in deliveries or data visualization. We want updates to be instantaneous or at least with a short update period, ...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Kubernetes Cluster data support for Cloud sustainability Dashboards in Cloudability

Multiple customers are using the Cloudability Sustainability Dashboard which is imperative to understand carbon emissions and other metrics. One of customers are willing to understand the sustainability data from a Kubernetes cluster data perspect...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Enhanced change log and version control system

Summary: Introduce a change log and version control system to track modifications made to business mappings, tags/labels, account group mappings, and views within the platform, allowing users to view, compare, and revert changes as needed. Use cas...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Reporting on App Service Environments in Azure.

CBA have a use case where many of their workloads are moving to ASE. We dont get much granularity from ASE in the cost reporting - however via the SPN we deploy we could possibly use that to gain better insights for ASE.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted