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ApptioBI report filter add scroll bar

As a builder of ApptioBI reports, I find that there are often many filters needed. Sometimes too many for the screen to show all at once. It is not obvious to most of my users that some of these are therefore hidden, nor how to reach those additio...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Future consideration

Cloudability/Optimize/Commitment Portfolio - add Payer Id, and Account Id/Name

As a member of a central FinOps team, covering multiple AWS and Azure payer accounts, we would like to be able to filter the Commitment Portfolio by Payer Id and/or the 'hosting' Vendor Account Name / Id that has the purchased items. Currently the...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 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.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 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.

Improve Right Sizing ROI policy to filter out different types (e.g. ignore EBS gp2/sc1 recommendations)

Currently seeing lot's of recommendations to change EBS to GP2. AWS is strongly recommending moving GP2 to GP3 so it's bizarre to recommend the reverse. Want to alter the policy to ignore such options, or only show GP3.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Request for Policy limit Increase and Consolidation Option

We are unable to create a new policy for rightsizing because we have reached the policy limit target (30 policies). we have multiple Line of Business (LOBs), and each LOB requires three policies-one for each service: Compute, Disk, and SQL. We kin...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Include Disk USED vs Provisioned as a rightsizing recommendation

As a new rightsizing opportunity, for customers who have enhanced CW metrics enabled on their EC2 instances could we look to including a capability to check the actually utilized disk vs what was provisioned, eg: you're only using 10GB of a 1TB pr...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Increase limit for Rightsizing Policies.

In my org, we have multiple projects, as such have hit the maximum number of Rightsizing Policies CLDY allows us to create.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Calculated Metrics using Cloudability Usage Data within Apptio BI (Cloudability GovCloud)

As a user of a GovCloud Cloudability instance, it would be beneficial to have a feature to create calculated metrics referencing cost data from Cloudability. We currently cannot easily create metrics such as "percentage of total spend", based on t...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Forecasting Capability in Apptio BI reports

Ability to add forecast widgets based on the set budgets. To understand the estimated future cost for a particular workload (compute, Storage etc).
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release