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Allow seeing and credentialing Azure subscriptions in Cloudability even if they have no cost data, so commitments purchased in "commitment-only" subscriptions can be ingested/displayed

Some customers create dedicated "commitment-only" linked accounts or subscriptions in which they only purchase reserved instances and savings plans but don't operate resources. This is a best practice for mature FinOps organizations because it max...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Carbon calculation updates - factor in flexibility/history archive or rebaseline for customer operational processes

The recent update to the Carbon calculations in CLDY has highlighted an improvement area that would help with customer adoption. Customers who baselined using the previous calcs would have seen their numbers jump 4x with the recent change to the c...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Tracking Snowflake prepaid credits

In the case of Snowflake and Azure Databricks, we prepay for a set number of capacity units. In the case of Databricks, it is DBUs. Each job that runs, etc, has a DBU spend attached to it. This is the same for Snowflake. It comes through as $0 dol...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Option to export Vendor credential Account data as CSV

Due to multiple CSPs with multiple Parent and Child accounts, it is imperative to categorize accounts based on if they are Archived, have adv creds, require any other configuration. It is currecnly not possible in the UI and Cx teams have to ident...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Cloudability support for AWS & Azure China

Our company is using Cloudability globally to manage all public clouds except for AWS & Azure in China. We'd like to have consistent way to manage FinOps in our global estate. Can Cloudability start to ingest data from AWS & Azure China.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Proposal: Introduce Yellow Checkmark for Partial Azure Credential Permissions

Team, From what I understand about Azure credential behavior today: 1) For basic credentials, a green tick appears when the minimum permissions to pull billing data are present. However, key permissions like billing:EnrollmentReader (alghough not ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

What-if planing option to evaluate impact if a percentage of VMs upsize

Would like to be able to run a plan that evaluates cluster capacity if VMs in an automation hotadd policy were to upsize. Within the plan be able to on a slide basis evalutate if 10,20 etc. % were to consume the limit of the hot add policy. This w...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Allow temporary group creation within Plan function of the tool

Many times for running plans, I have to create a VM group here and a host group there. They all end up sitting in the environment indefinitely until I explicitly look for them for cleaning (being able to look for them by "Last Used" or "Last Updat...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Planned for future release

Plan Migration to show a cost comparison between migrating to the different cloud providers

Instead of a user creating 3 plans (one for each provider) and moving between dashboards to compare. A customer wanted to see a single dashboard comparing the possible migrations to all clouds to decide on the best one.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Not under consideration

The plan function should include migration of SQL Managed Instances from on prem to the cloud.

These are very expensive entities - and the ability to estimate costs would be good. Also important, some customers use the exported plan as an input into a semi-automated migration process. So being able to include SQL machines in the planning fu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release