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Cloudability

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Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Adding recomendations for SQL Instances and Memorystore for GCP

Helps reduce cost for SQL and Redis usage in GCP by identifying overprovisioned and stale resources.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Support for Simple Calculated Expressions Within Cloudability Dashboard Widgets

Currently, Cloudability dashboards allow users to display predefined values in widgets. However, it would be highly beneficial if users could define simple expressions or calculations directly within widget columns. For example: Calculating the di...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Ability to disable/enable default Cloudability dimensions

Post introduction of the ATUM* dimensions, we realized that our users see too many options in the dimensions dropdown while creating reports and widgets. Not every Cloudability customer needs all the default dimensions as we also introduce dimensi...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Add additional timeline 60 days, 90 days to Rightsizing recommendations

Users would like to have a better understanding of their workload utilisation (containers in particular) before being able to make a decision to rightsizing. Additional timeline options such as 60days & 90days would be helpful for them to make...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Ability to filter Container data by pod names

Customers often have naming conventions for pods and technical teams want to easily see their workloads within Containers. This request is to allow for filtering by pod names (esp with starts with or contains) to allow for filtering to the list of...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Include AWS Lambda Functions with detailed metadata in Resource Inventory

We would like to request the inclusion of AWS Lambda functions in the Cloudability Resource Inventory, along with relevant metadata such as runtime version, memory size, timeout configuration and associated tags. This would enable improved visibil...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Make user access granting process more straightforward

The process required for gaining access to Cloudability for the first time is overly complex, not intuitive and not what one would expect from a SaaS tool from a user perspective. In order to gain fully-fledged access, including to views permittin...
6 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Under review

Surface time of last data reprocess and data refetch

There is no visibility at the moment when the last data reprocess occurred. This is especially pertinent after creating a business mapping as we would like to know when a data reprocess has happened so we can safely use the business mapping to cre...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2