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Cloudability Dashboards & Reports: Calendar-Aligned Rolling Date Ranges and Visualisation Granularity Control

TL;DR Cloudability's date picker offers a Rolling option on custom ranges, but it operates at day level only — there is no way to define a rolling range that shifts by a complete calendar month, quarter, or half. Named calendar-aligned presets sto...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Add Usage Quantity Unit, Resource ID, and Usage Hours to Commitment Portfolio

The customer would like additional consumption-level visibility directly within the Commitment Portfolio/page. The requested fields are: Usage Quantity Unit Resource ID Usage Hours IBM's Commitment Table Basics documentation lists the fiel...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Future consideration

Add support to Currency Code = HUF in Cloudability UI

Customer have billing files in Currency Code = HUF and they would like to add support for this currency in the Cloudability UI so all features ( Reporting, Dashboard, Anomaly, Budgeting, RightSizing) are shown in HUF currency
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other Future consideration

Ability to remove decimal when using count()

It help to show better format of data and avoid confusion to users.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI Future consideration

Version Control Improvements for Business Mappings

Apptio Costing and Planning has a native version control that allows a monthly table to retain schema, layout, etc. from 1 time period to another (between versions). Cloudability's business mapping today requires users to add "Date" and manually s...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Enable OCLI and Composer extract/create commands to append output to an existing file

Currently, when using OCLI or Composer to extract multiple object types, each extract operation requires its own output file. As a result, users must execute multiple extract commands and manage multiple files before performing a subsequent add or...
17 days ago in Workload Automation Future consideration

Custom dashboard: A freeform (canvas) layout and custom backound

A freeform (canvas) layout visual organization mode for dashboards that allows users to freely and precisely place, resize, and overlay charts, text, and images anywhere on the canvas. The ability to set a custom dashboard background combined with...
24 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Widget resizing to reclaim empty spaces

The widget has reached its minimum size and cannot be scaled down further, wasting layout space for additional widgets.
24 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Custom Dashboard: Dark mode

Dark Mode and high-contrast interfaces to reduce visual fatigue (especially when using video screens or televisions in NOC).  It produces energy savings and highlights the graphics. Optimize continuous operational monitoring through the imple...
24 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Custom dashboard: Add Threshold in Chart Time Series widget

Optimize continuous operational monitoring through the implementation of high-impact visual dashboards designed for large-format displays (NOC/SOC), reducing cognitive fatigue and accelerating real-time issue detection and identification.   T...
24 days ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration