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Unify resource ID display Azure

In the right sizing recommendations I the ResourceID some sometimes not displayed for Azure resources. Which makes it a bit cumbersome to find these resources if for instance you want to dig up details in for instance Apptio BI. In addition what i...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

set default value for timeline

Next to setting the default cost metrics, we would like to be able to set default value for the timeline for rightsizing.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

The compare function in Reports is not configured correctly

The compare function is designed to work the way by default, considering the "Previous Period" date range. Previous Period, here refers to considering the number same of days (period) in the current selection for the comparison. Hence the results....
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Planned for future release

Ability to report and filter on Commitment type (All Upfront, Partial Upfront, No Upfront)+

We would be able to compare in reports total cost and how the different commitment types impact the savings. Plus be able to filter out all upfront costs from Amortized costs.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Provide scheduling recommendations

Would be great if Cloudability would provide recommendations on what (compute) resources to put on a schedule (e.g. start/stop on the weekends) and if we can also create a Cloudability issue for this that enables us to track the savings.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

More of a Bug than an idea. Currently unutilized part of a Savings plan shows Reservations class as "Standard" which is a class suitable for RIs.

For a customer Reservation Class is showing as "Standard" despite the Lease Type being Savings Plan. This happens specifically for Transaction Type "Recurring Charge". Implecation being that the unused part of a Savings Plan is being tagged under ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create multiple rightsizing ticket for the same resource

Currently if a customer creates a rightsizing ticket for one issue and act on it. Now after 30 days , customer receives another recommendation for the same resource , there is no option to create a separate ticket as it will still show the previou...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Integration with Grafana Cloud for enhanced rightsizing recommendations

Currently, there is an integration with Datadog that retrieves additional data points and enhances the rightsizing recommendations. It would be great to be able to integrate other open source observability tools such as Grafana Cloud for the same ...

Optimisations should report if changes are required before they can be executed

The latest example of this is the asV6 SKUs which have a dependency for the VM to be running the NVMe disk controller, yet the recommendation is being made for VMs wwith SCSI disk controllers. These optimisations then fail when customers try to ap...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 3 Planned for future release

Rightsizing ROI to automatically track updates for the tickets created on 10 day Timeline and Incorrect Identification of Rightsized resources.

Currently if a customer is creating a rightsizing ticket for a 10 day timeline, the ticket is not getting updated automatically unless for the same recommendation exist for a 30 day timeline for the same resource id. Also if a resource has been ri...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release