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Disk usage metric for EBS and GPD

Currently we cannot look at the disk usage data for EBS and GPD, most of the disks are over provisioned and we pay for what we allocate than what we use. Cloudability is showing these metrics for RDS in AWS, why cant we do it for EBS and GPD with ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

A new line formatting on the "Define email body" section feature of the Email Subscription

Untruncated text in the Email Body field of Email Subscription "Define Email body" option is essential to deliver a comprehensive message ensuring the recipients receive the message as intended by the IT Finance team. This is to guarantee that cri...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

2 Step Authentication

I was unable to connect to Tableau since it uses 2-step authentication (POST, then a GET request). It would be useful if Apptio added this feature so I could connect in-house.
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Can we have Load time indicator or progress bar to set expectations.

At times, reports in Apptio take significantly longer to load without any prior indication. For example, during a live screen-sharing session where we’re reviewing financials, switching to another report can trigger a long ‘Calculating…’ phase. In...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

New Process for Adding a Contract?

To add a contract, users currently need to navigate to the relevant tab, scroll to the bottom, or right-click to insert a row above or below. Suggested Improvement: Instead of manually inserting rows, what if a form popped up when cost centre owne...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Difficult to check what the changes have been made

Can we make group by in the top ? by the plan ?then by the amount ? so we can check how much amount was added or removed in the timeframe selected, filters of cost centre or others can be provided ( this should be visible to Admins and also for Co...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

API for creating hierarchical view and hierarchical dimensions

It is cumbersome to have to manually create hierarchical view and hierarchical dimensions esp when the mappings change more than once a month. Please provide an API for creation of hierarchical view and hierarchical dimensions
4 months ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

JIRA Archive functionality in TargetProcess

Jira has implemented Archiving functionality which works as a "soft delete" and makes the item view only. For synced items, you are able to modify the TargetProcess entity, and the change is not applied to the Jira item. Additionally, JIRA achieve...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / ADO/JIRA Integration 1 Submitted

Improve Cloudability Usage Reporting

We are now starting to receive a monthly file that contains Dashboard and Report views from Cloudability. However, the files are missing important data that would make them much more useful. Dashboard file: The Dashboard file contains the date/tim...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Under review

Datalink: "Time Period" selection should be available in the front page

There are connectors which need to run monthly for multiple months due to changes in the previous periods. In order to load this in Apptio we need to either adjust manually each time the name of the file (with the month and year) or to go inside e...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration