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Cloudability Government

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Widget Descriptions

The ability to add a short descriptor within the widget or being able to hover over a widget and see the descriptor
8 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Planned for future release

Provide more details on the Apptio help center

Rightsizing in Cloudability (apptio.com) Currently the apptio help center doesn't include a comprehensive explaination on idle resource, such as the how to define S3 idle percentage, which will affect the user experience.

Ability to Drill Down within a dashboard widget

The ability to drill down into data on a widget would be incredibly helpful without understanding the data. For example, one particular District is high, ability to drill down to the accounts within that District to help isolate the cause.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Ability to Send Anomaly Alerts to multiple people

Currently everyone who wants to receive alerts on anomalies has to create their own email alerts because it only sends to yourself. It would be helpful to be able to add multiple people to an anomaly email alert so that multiple people can get not...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Cloudability Government 0 Planned for future release

Chart formatting capabilities

Formatting options to include Title font sizes, bolding, colors. Ability to change contract for Cldy. Bar/line color options so we can create widgets that always have AWS in Blue and Azure in Red for example.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

Revise the Report Screen

Adjusting the Reports section to allow for people to either select their own top 10 or be able to star reports even if they did not create them. Currently the listing is a bit too busy for the average end user.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Display Hourly Data

Having this additional level of granularity would help to improve analysis of trends and outliers. The instructions to pull the AWS CUR data into Cloudability specifies that we should select hourly granularity, so the data should already exist, it...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Under review

Show Cost on the Commitment Portfolio table

Currently there are a couple of extra clicks to open a separate report to get to the cost during the selected Reporting Range for the RI's or Savings Plans. Would be nice to have the Cost as another column next to Unrealized Savings.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Needs more information

Keep Apptio Gov Help Up To Date with Commercial

The gov version of Apptio Help seems to not get updated as often as Commercial. According to gov help on 2/10/25 (https://help-gov.apptio.com/cloudability/whats-new.htm), the last update to Cloudability was on September 30, 2024.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Help & Training 1 Planned for future release

Ability to Star Reports I Don't Own

I would like to be able to star an out of the box report without having to make a copy of it. This would be helpful in managing the list of reports and allow me to go to the Starred reports for the ones that I'm interested in.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration