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Add Databricks cluster names to Cloudability for Databricks GCP

Cloudability Databricks GCP connector is not bringing in Databricks cluster names. As result it is difficult to use Cloudability to understand which Databricks GCP cluster contributed to costs. Cloudability shows Databricks Azure cluster names. Da...

Subcategories in credits to classify them and better understand these concepts when creating reports

The client would like to be able to subclassify credits in the same way, or in a more granular way, as seen in the console of their cloud providers. In this case, GCP. Currently, in Cloudability, we only classify them as credits or not.
14 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted

Updating Alerts

Keep alerts up to date is incredibly painful. People come and go and roles change. The process to ensure alerts are going to the right key stakeholders is incredibly painful. I have several suggestions. Option 1. Ability to keep alerts automatical...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

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...
7 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...

Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the OS Version field of the Instances as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the OS Version inf...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Future consideration

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
15 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Need an additional Date Range option for this month last year.

In the dashboard view of Cloudability, for date range. I would like to request a new option be added for last year-month. It would cover this month last year, so Oct 1st - Oct 31st of 2024. It would have that same range all month long, then on 11/...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

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...
19 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Please include Custom date range in the custom metric timeline

Currently the custom metric in apptioBI has only standard timelines like : "this week", "last week", etc.. and the only option of customization is inherit date from visualization, but when we use multiple custom metrics in the report for different...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration