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Send Anomaly Detection Alerts to Account Owners

Our internal Cloud Optimization team would like to use the Anomaly Detection API to send alerts to the owners of accounts that have an anomaly. As of right now you can only set up Anomaly Subscriptions for the API key you are working under. This e...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0

Report Favorites should be removed if a report is marked inactive or moved to an unviewable collection

Currently, the ability to mark a report as a favorite is available to all users in Production. The TBMAs have no visibility to know what users have marked reports as a favorite. In fact, even if a TBMA impersonates another user, the favorites that...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Create a DL option for Anomaly Detection Alerts

As FinOps Analysts, we are receiving anomaly alerts that need to be forwarded to FinOps champions in each business unit. We aim to automate the distribution of these alerts to various stakeholders. Therefore, anomaly alerts should be filtered by b...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 1 Planned for future release

Apptio CT and Datalink should provide capability to export data to CSV

CSV is one of the standard feed format used for data ingress/egress between systems. In general, CSV is considered to be better than XLS because of its capacity to carry more data and to retain the original data formats. In our organization, all o...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Future consideration

Update to use amortised metric especially for Azure

With Azure spend if you are using Reservations or Savings plans the spend will only show up in the Cost amortised extracts otherwise under the cost actuals/total it shows zero spend. Therefore the anomaly tracking within Cloudability isn't correct...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Visual Indicator for Versioned Tables

The process for identifying versioned tables today requires a check-out. Adding a visual indicator to quickly identify a versioned table would eliminate an unnecessarily check-out thus saving time/effort.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 2 Under review

Add a permission to remove the 'Delete' option in Editable and normal tables for Power users

This will help prevent data changes/deletion by our power users. Currently Power users have permissions to add/remove the 'Update' and 'download' data options in Access Administration settings but the 'Delete' permissions option is not created Acc...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Under review

Anomaly Detection - Cost Metric Configuration

Current State: Cloudability’s anomaly detection feature currently uses Cost (Total) as the only basis for identifying anomalies in cloud spend. Problem: Cost (Total) does not reflect the actual financial impact to the business because it excludes ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Subscription emails

Leverage more than one global filter on the email feature for Costing
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted