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Commitment Support for Azure Database for MySQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the MySQL Database server. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look a...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Utilisation Data for GCP

Currently we can only extract the utilisation data of AWS services through reports. we want the same functionality for GCP Compute and other GCP services. Given the data is already available and used for rightsizing recommendations it should have ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Functionality already exists

Provide container rightsizing recommendations for Karpenter nodepools similar to what is provided for ASG nodes

Karpenter is becoming an industry standards, my customers want container rightsizing recommendations for Karpenter node pools.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 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

Change commitment portfolio to not show incomplete data

Savings Portfolio - daily savings and utilization graphs need to avoid using a red bar for the current day (early morning?). This seemed to me to be a warning to be researched, but instead it was just that the current day's data had not been fully...

Ability to configure table columns shown in Optimize → Rightsizing recommendation summaries

Problem:Right now you can filter the rightsizing table down based on tags and resource meta data however there no way to include and show relevant tag values, resource state, dimensions. Request:Have the ability to show what columns show in the ta...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Data export that triggers download directly in browser instead of having to wait for an email link

Problem:Right now when you generate a csv data export for a visual in an Apptio BI report, you get a pop up message to check your email. Then you have to go to your email and wait for the link to the download to arrive. Then open that back in your...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Ability to expand the size and full-screen of the drill table results popup

Problem:Right now the size of the drill table pop-up in an Apptio BI report is fixed. Drill tables with many columns are difficult to read and navigate in the current pop-up size. Request:Allow a report view to drag a corner of the drill table pop...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Not under consideration

Show specific data range included as “previous period” in visuals with a previous period comparison enabled

Problem:Right now when you have a visual with a "compare" to "previous period" enabled, the previous period metric in the visual is just labeled "previous period" and doen't state what the previous period includes. Request:To provide clarity and r...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

In ApptioBI be able to sort my measure value in visualizations where data has Date Range: View By option other than None selected

Problem:Right now when data is grouped by day, month, etc. the data can only be sorted by the dimensions alphabetically in the Edit UI and for a report view. This means as a report owner I can't display the most costly items at the top of the tabl...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted