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Ability to customize starting month for pans

When we generate forecast using plans feature, we should be able to customize starting month for plans. This will help tracking our commitments with CSPs. For example - If we have a commitment with CSP starting from Sep-2025 for 2 years. I dont ne...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

CFP - Support Azure Contract Commitments (including 5 year Plan Duration)

Customers would like the ability to track and reconcile their Azure Contract Commitments (e.g., Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), Enterprise Agreement (EA), Azure Consumption Commitment, Azure Prepayment, etc.) directly within the Cloud Financia...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Ability to see available and utiltized TPU cores and memory in container insights

Customers would like to see the available and utilized TPU cores and memory in container insights. They can see Idle in costs but not in utilization.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Ability to see available and utiltized GPU cores in container insights

Customers would like to see the available and utilized GPU cores in container insights. They can see Idle in costs but not in utilization.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Future consideration

Container recommendations should include recommendations where limits = request for all resources and one where they are not identical.

Customers would like to see recommendations where they can guarantee that the workload will have the resources as well as ones where the ability is variable (limit does not equal requested). Different workloads have different needs. It would be he...

Updated UI when importing Budgets with values that don't load.

Customers want to allow for future planned expenses in their budgets. Sometimes these future plans are not reflected in the current values available in the costing dimensions in Plans. Customer would like to be able to add "dummy" or future planne...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Track status of provisioned Clusters

Knowing which clusters have been provisioned and their status (active, inactive, no data received) would help in determining how many clusters are not currently capturing data. Currently, only clusters that have sent information are available. Cus...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Add support for displaying Fiscal Years as per UK accounting convention

Cloud Financial Planning currently doesn't support the conventional way of displaying a UK Fiscal Year that spans 2 calendar year. For example, a Fiscal Year that runs for 12 months from April (Yr1) to March (Yr2) can only be displayed as either F...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

API Support for Cloudability Containers – Metrics Agent Observability

We greatly value the recently released metrics agent observability tool and believe that enabling API support would unlock even greater potential.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review