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Cloudability

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Add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI

Hi Team, Would you please consider to add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI? Right now, only on-demand is being displayed, as these costs are usually higher, they create wrong expectations within the organization. Thanks fo...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Ability to Restrict Edit Permissions for Budgets in Cldy

Currently you cannot restrict who can edit a Budget in Cldy. It would be helpful if we could restrict users so that only the creator of the Budget (or assigned people) could edit the Budget, while other users could just utilize the Budget. This wi...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Enhance Cloudability to Ingest Azure Invoice Tax and Credit Data(beyond CUR CSV)

Currently Cloudability ingests Azure Cost and Usage Report (CUR ) data through CSV exports (eg: apptio_actual_cost_daily_exports) . These CUR files exclude the tax and credit fields which are only available in the Azure Invoice (PDF) As a result ,...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Link to report from the recommendation details for AWS RDS

AWS RDS is missing a link to the report where it goes into detail which resources would benefit from the reservation. The other services from AWS have this feature.

Add Views for Business Mapping

Southwest Airlines FinOps team utilizes Business Mappings and is aware that some tooling doesn't support the View setup with a Business Mapping.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Populate Resource Name dimension for Azure

The Resource Name dimension isn't populated for Azure. This is a key field, present in the CUR and should be made available in Cloudability. Without it, it is quite cumbersome to always rely on the Resource Id, which is a very long string. Coupled...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Under review

Rightsizing recommendation support for Elastisearch

I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS service like Elastisearch. It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for the service to help optimize costs and drive greater effic...
18 days 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 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Ability to pull Network/Memory allocation metrics in Reports and Dashboards/ apptio BI

With the curent capability to build container reports with Utilizations or cost or usage metrics, it is imperative to have CPU/Memory/GPU Allocation metrics available as part of Reports/Dashboards or Apptio BI reports. to provide more clarity, a s...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Under review

Option to count e.g. number of cloud accounts

We have another KPI to track the growth of cloud accounts or number of projects
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release