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Cloudability

Flexible Visualization of Budget Variance Details

CFP (Cloud Financial Planning) lacks a good way to visualize the Budget Variance Details. Ideally, all dimensions of the plan should be selectable / Filtrable to construct a chart - they are currently in the Table, but to visualize it the only opt...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Needs more information

Optimization recommendations for additional AWS Services (e.g.: CloudWatch, DynamoDB, Glue, Analytics Services, ECS)

Optimization recommendations for additional AWS Services (e.g.: CloudWatch, DynamoDB, Glue, Analytics Services, ECS)
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Needs more information

Add Kubecost as a standard connection for importing data

Create a connector that will import data from a standalone Kubecost installation to allow import to Cloudability similar to FOCUS format or other vendors. We have multiple years of history that we want to load into Cloudability for reporting and p...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting Needs more information

Ability to copy values in Resource Inventory UI

Cloudability’s Resource Inventory page should allow users to directly select and copy field values from the UI, such as resource name, instance ID, account, tags, region, and other displayed attributes. This would be very useful for FinOps, CloudO...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory Needs more information

Budgets can be created by Users groups assigned to the view

Remove the current limitation for User Groups to create a budget with the views they are associated
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning Needs more information

Ability to Report on the Azure Recommendations

The ability to generate a report that compares existing commitments against recommended commitments, enabling us to identify under-provisioning or over-provisioning across different workloads.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Needs more information

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...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Needs more information

ServiceNow and Cloudability Integration with mandatory fields

ServiceNow and Cloudability Integration with mandatory fields
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Needs more information

Anamoly detection and Insights dashboarding

Currently we don't have a dashboard to automatically share us the insghts to detect and visualize anamolies in the cloud costs , usage and performance data within Cloudability. FinOps , Users are looking to have this enhanced and will use statisca...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection Needs more information

The data exported from CUR to blob storage includes the 'Unit of Measure' but it is not present in Cloudability. As part of the monthly usage report audit, the 'Unit of Measure' is one of the mandatory dimensions. Could you prioritize adding it?

For the audit, we are comparing the Azure pricing sheet with the Apptio usage report. The rates defined in the table above are based on the 'Unit of Measure.' The 'Unit of Measure' in the Azure pricing sheet and the CUR file differs however the pr...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Needs more information