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Normalize region naming conventions between datasets for Cloud Service Providers and SaaS Services, E.g. AWS & Databricks on AWS.

Problem:Right now we have Cloudability vendor credentialling set up for our AWS organizations and our AWS-hosted Databricks account. The vendor regions in the data sets has different naming conventions even though in reality they represent the sam...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Add Purchasing Account Name in Tables on Commitment Portfolio for RIs

It would be helpful to on the Commitment Portfolio page, when selecting AWS RIs, to show the purchasing account. When selecting Savings Plans, you do get the account name included. This would help the central FinOps team be able to quickly analyze...

Include Unusual Spend chart in the anomaly email notification

Currently, unusual spend is reported via email alert - but there is no daily spend and a visual of a cost spike available, unless one goes to Cloudability anomalies and clicks on alert detail. It will be very useful to have that anomaly chart incl...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Customer would like to request the ability to leave comments in the Anomaly Detection screen, similar to the functionality available in the Rightsizing ROI screen.

In some cases, they need to record the analysis process or results, and assign follow-up actions to specific team members. Since not all users utilize tools like Jira or ServiceNow, having a way to manage such tasks directly within Cloudability wo...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Add Treemap visualization to Cloudability dashboards

A Treemap widget/visualization would enable teams to see a heatmap in a cloudability dashboards. A treemap would also enable a more comparitive view
8 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

New cloud services support required in Workload Planning

Hi, as part of our workload planning use case, our project managers build estimates using WP for new projects, where we require support for additional services in step 2 (resource type) while adding a resource. (Regarding the services that are ver...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted

Be able to set Databricks Account Name value in Vendor Credentials

Problem:Right now when you add a Databricks connection in vendor credentials the Account ID is set as both Account ID and Account Name. This value is just a string of numbers and letters, not easily interpretable to know which account it represent...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

Enable Apptio BI Report Subscriptions for Non-Cloudability Users

Currently, only Cloudability users can subscribe to Apptio BI reports. However, there are scenarios where customers want to include members of their management or leadership teams, who are not Cloudability users and do not wish to become users, in...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Container Cost Allocation Based on Labels Instead of Namespaces

The customer has over 40 Kubernetes clusters with numerous shared resources within a single namespace across different cost centers. They would like the Kubernetes cost allocation feature to support allocation of resources based on labels, rather ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted