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The data exported from CUR to blob storage includes the 'Unit of Measure' but it is not present in Cloudability. As part of the monthly usage report audit, the 'Unit of Measure' is one of the mandatory dimensions. Could you prioritize adding it?

For the audit, we are comparing the Azure pricing sheet with the Apptio usage report. The rates defined in the table above are based on the 'Unit of Measure.' The 'Unit of Measure' in the Azure pricing sheet and the CUR file differs however the pr...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Needs more information

Apply a filter to the entire dashboard

Like the new feature that allows us to select a date range for an entire dashboard, I would like to be able to select other dimensions as a filter, rather than having to create a view each time.For example : Filter a dashboard by AWS payer ID, or ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0

Ability to disable/enable default Cloudability dimensions

Post introduction of the ATUM* dimensions, we realized that our users see too many options in the dimensions dropdown while creating reports and widgets. Not every Cloudability customer needs all the default dimensions as we also introduce dimensi...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Support more than one viewing currency per environment

Today, for multi-currency configuration, Cloudability can only support one specified currency per environment. Many of our customers are global entities and have a need to display cloud cost data in the local currency of their sites or offices. Fo...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Cloudability Forecasting improvement

In Cloudability, the forecasting model skews forecasts post February because of the number of days in Feb. I suggest using a 30 day normalized approach for forecasting to improve the linear forecasting approach. Currently, as a FinOps practitioner...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Financial Year under 'Pick a Time Period' in Cloudability Native Dashboards & Reporting

Cenitex have requested a 'Financial Year' time filter for reporting in Cloudability Native Dashboards & reports. Attached screenshot of where it'd be applied. This small addition would be a huge productivity increase for many finance teams who...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements

AS400 Message queue alert to be triggered based on specific requirements The requirement is to exclude the message wait monitoring based on message text similar to "messageIdsExclude" in below code. messageQueueEvent: Lib-1/queueName1: ## Provide ...
7 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

iSeries servers availability monitoring

iSeries servers are currently monitored remotely via the agent. However, we need to ensure that events are triggered in in case of below scenario.1. Server down2. Password expired3. Connectivity lost between iSeries to Agent
8 months ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Planned for future release

enable future date selection in the time range filter

One of my clients is using the Cloudability dashboard and would like to select a custom time range that aligns with their fiscal year — specifically from February 2025 to February 2026. However, when attempting to select this range, the calendar d...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 2 Future consideration