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This customer is looking for the ability to allocate costs within Cloudability to showback their costs related to their MS 360 Infrastructure stack.

Having this functionality would remove the manual workflow processes today to capture the services and costs associated to provide back to the business and finance teams.
12 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Filtering options for recommended types

AWS EBS storage type filtering requirement: Need to exclude SC1 storage type from right-sizing recommendations. SC1 proposals create false savings reports that require manual explanation why not going to SC1. So if we can have a filtering option t...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Future consideration

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
6 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Should be able to see anomalies at business dimensions and tag level. Currently it is limited to Azure subscription group level.

Current anomalies are at subscription group level. We need to manually check which Application is causing the anomaly for each one of them by creating a report and doing further analysis which is time consuming. We should be able to have anomalies...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Extend Commitment Portfolio Support to Business Mapping–Based Views

Today, Commitment Portfolio in Cloudability only supports views based on account and vendor tag dimensions. This creates a limitation for customers like NTT, who want to manage commitments in alignment with their Azure enrollment (payer accounts)....
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Executive Summary for Anomaly Detection Items

The customer has requested a summary of all anomaly detection data be included in the built-in reports as a precursor to the actual data itself. This could perhaps be created using WatsonX.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Commitment Support for Microsoft Fabric

Commitment Support for Microsoft Fabric
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Supported DataPower versions 10.5

Instana supports metrics and configuration data for IBM DataPower 2018.4, 10.0.1.x, 10.0.x and later versions, ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-datapower#supported-datapower-versions Most...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Functionality already exists

Show snoozed recommendations comments in API call

When doing an API call for snoozed recommendations a great feature would be to also receive the comments left on the resource as well as the user who left those comments. This can be used as control as well as general understanding of reasons to s...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration