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Cloudability

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Product Documentation Clarity and Coverage

We've received feedback indicating that certain parts of the product documentation are difficult to understand, particularly when it comes to behavior that changes based on conditions on the CSP (Cloud Service Provider) side. Specifically: -There ...

View/Edit anomaly detection - alert notifications centrally

Currently, the Cloudability console does not provide visibility into who has configured Anomaly Alerts Notifications. As the FinOps team, gaining insight into which users have enabled these alerts—along with the associated thresholds and the views...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Support K8s label based views in Rightsizing.

Being able to provide users with access to only the information relevant to them is important to customers. Customers would like to be able to use K8s label based views to filter to only specific labels in containers. This would filter the list to...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Filtering options for recommended types

AWS EBS storage type filtering requirement: Need to exclude SC1 storage type from right-sizing recommendations. SC1 proposals create false savings reports that require manual explanation why not going to SC1. So if we can have a filtering option t...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

More granular options

Current anomaly detection scope at subscription level is too broad for practical use. We would like to see anomaly detections based on resource groups, instead of subscription. Because subscription is too big. Right now we can't use this feature. ...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Ability to customize starting month for pans

When we generate forecast using plans feature, we should be able to customize starting month for plans. This will help tracking our commitments with CSPs. For example - If we have a commitment with CSP starting from Sep-2025 for 2 years. I dont ne...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

Update to use amortised metric especially for Azure

With Azure spend if you are using Reservations or Savings plans the spend will only show up in the Cost amortised extracts otherwise under the cost actuals/total it shows zero spend. Therefore the anomaly tracking within Cloudability isn't correct...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Alert notifications or subscriptions via Slack / Teams, etc.

Companies are getting away from email and moving to messaging platforms like Slack and Teams. Customers want to subscribe alerts to specific Slack channels vs. getting an email.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Add Unit of Measure as a Dimension in Cloudability

While Usage Quantity is a metric, the corresponding Unit of Measure if not a dimension that is surfaced in Cloudability. Without Unit of Measure, it is not always possible to tell what is being measure/billed in Usage Quantity (hour, GB, core, etc...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Needs more information

Rightsizing recommendations for AWS Dynamo DB

Customers are looking for advice on how to optimize Dynamo DB
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration