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feature Budgets & Forecasting - remove Taxes on "Actual Cost"

When we forecasting, the actual cost brings taxes influencing all the cost values and forecasting itself. Our proposal is to remove taxes from this exercise NOTE: Already solved with business mapping and views
6 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration

Make TPU and GPU information from GCP available in reporting

Customers would like to see the size and memory capacity of their TPUs and GPUs. Understanding cost footprint associated with TPU and GPU sizes and capabilities is important for optimization and planning for the future.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Future consideration

Allow customization to the container cost allocation algorithm

Currently the cost allocation is based on the instances used in the cluster. Customers would also like to be able to tailor the cost allocation for specific clusters or be able to assign their own weight for some workload types. Possible configura...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Add Project Settings option for Number Formatting to apply to all tables (not shown via reports)

As a TBMA, I would like to see numbers displayed in non-report tables displayed in TBM Studio formatted with a thousands and/or decimal places, when defined in a new "Number Formatting" option in Project Settings. The formatting will not only assi...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 1 Under review

Can we have capability to map other relevant (non-compute) charges like network back to the OCI cluster ?

Hi Team, Can we have capability to map other relevant (non-compute) charges like network back to the OCI cluster ? In other words, right now, we are able to view the non-compute of clusters of other CSPs - AWS and GCP but not for OCI. For OCI, ONL...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Cost Allocation and Sharing 1 Submitted

Have more than 5 dimensions that can be added within a plan

Hi,We would like the ability to add more than five dimensions to a plan. This flexibility is important for us, as we often need to filter and analyze data across multiple dimensions to meet various business needs. Different business units have uni...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 4 Planned for future release

We need the plans feature to automatically add new accounts to existing plans

If the plans feature cannot automatically add new accounts, it will be highly inconvenient for customers. Manually adding or recreating a plan for each new account is extremely time-consuming. I recommend that the product team adjust the feature t...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 3

Kubernetes Metric Agent API Key Rotation

Cloudability includes functionality to showback Kubernettes cluster costs for GCP (GKE) and Azure (AKS). In order to gather the required metrics to calculate cluster costs, an agent must be installed on each cluster. As part of the agent installat...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Use websockets to establish communication between MCM Cluster Hub and the managed cluster (Public Cloud)

Sometimes the cluster hub could be installed in a data center with several security restrictions, with some exceptions the customer could open the outbound traffic to internet, in order to manage another cluster like EKS, AKS, etc. but at the end ...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Not under consideration

AWS Splitting Credit Costs by category

I request that you break down the credits by category (see Description Item) on both the plan and the forcast so that we have the ability to make more accurate predictions. I attach the screenshot of AWS which already natively has this functionali...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Future consideration