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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...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 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...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

We should be able to pull Azure Utilization data into reports and dashboards in Cloudability & Apptio BI

Currently utilization data for Azure is in Resource Inventory. But we need to be able to pull it into reports and create widgets for our dashboards. Our IT teams and leaders would want to see these metrics in a summarized way without having to go ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Ability to hide dashboards from my own list

On the list of all dashboards for an org, I would like the ability to hide dashboards that I do not need. When a user shares a dashboard with an entire org, everyone gets it whether they want it or not and this can create a long list of dashboards.
19 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Ability to limit API Access/Generate API Keys

While Cloudability API access keys can be generated by any user, the role assigned to the user with the key dictates what the users can and can't do with API calls. For example, a base CLDY User role can't do anything with business mappings, as th...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Not under consideration

Number of months until x date

The idea would be to have a dynamic counter, to make some advanced calculated metrics. The example is the running rate that needs to be achieved until the end of the contract.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Upload Business Mappings via CSV

For many financial teams creating business mappings in the UI is cumbersome and they lack the skills to be able to create JSON. Its been requested that we should provide the ability to upload Business Mapping statements via CSV to Cloudability.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

Instana to monitor the IBM MQ's current channel connections percentage.

Currently, Instana does not provide metrics for the current channel connections as a percentage of the maximum allowed connections pool within IBM MQ. This metric is vital for proactive capacity and health monitoring of IBM MQ channels, enabling t...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement / Sensor 3

Report in user activity

We like a structured method of monitoring application usage to monitor the adoption of CLoudability as a tool to the users. Now the only way to do this is look in the tool at the last activity/login. We would like a report to do that, or be able t...
8 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 1 Not under consideration

Request for Enhancement in Apptio BI Reporting Based on CFP Plan

We would like the ability in Apptio BI to create a calculated metric—similar to what is available in the CFP plan—that combines Year-to-Date (YTD) actuals with forecast data. For example, if we are in June, the YTD cost calculation should include ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration