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API enhancement | json support

the API is helpful for situations where using the console isn't possible or ideal (automation, programmatic access, etc.). ibm support said that json as an output is not supported. json as a format is foundational to programmatic operations and AP...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

View-Based Filtering for Cost Ownership Accounts in Forecast Summary

Overview: We request the implementation of a filtering mechanism in the Forecast Summary page that limits the "Cost Ownership" dropdown to display only the accounts relevant to the selected planning view. Current Behavior: When creating a plan ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Filters in Cloudability financial planning

When building a plan in Cloudability Financial Planning, we want the ability to include or exclude specific elements—such as credits, marketplace charges, taxes, and others—just like we can currently do in Apptio BI Finance is building the budgets...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Planned for future release

Enabling assignee changes directly from the comment screen for Rightsizing ROI

There may be cases where users wish to change the assignee while adding a comment. Therefore, we would appreciate it if you could consider enabling assignee changes directly from the comment screen in future updates. Additionally, in the current J...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Cloudability MCP (Model Context Protocol)

We are currently building a FinOps Assistant GENAI, we have already other sources to enhance our FinOps assistant e.g AWS Billing and Cost Management official MCP, JIRA official MCP, DataDog official MCP and so on. What we are missing now is the C...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability / Other 1 Under review

Alert notifications or subscriptions via Slack / Teams, etc.

Companies are getting away from email and moving to messaging platforms like Slack and Teams. Customers want to subscribe alerts to specific Slack channels vs. getting an email.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Refresh Forecast/Actuals/Estimate in CFP Plan without needed to create a new plan

When the base cost dimension changes, there is no way to update the forecast/Budget/actuals with that new information without creating a new plan.For instance, if the base dimensions are created from Account number and new accounts are created, yo...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0

Build support for subscribing distribution lists to alerts (without the 'service account workaround')

Cloudability customers would like the ability to set up subscriptions (reports, alerts, anomalies, insights, etc) to be delivered to an exisiting distribution list. Today, the only way to do this is to create a service account using the distro lis...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Branches in CLDY

Currently the only environment where we can do limited testing and which is quite costly to maintain is Sandbox. In ApptioOne TBM Studio there is possibility to do Brach which is exact copy of the system. In that copy we can do conf changes and ch...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Future consideration

Budgets Data Log

Currently we need to raise an incident to IBM in order to see who updated the Budgets and when as we as admins do not have that view. This is time consuming for IBM and for us and sometimes when we do bulk uploads that can lead to data loss and a ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Needs more information