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Cloudability

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Ability to filter Container data by pod names

Customers often have naming conventions for pods and technical teams want to easily see their workloads within Containers. This request is to allow for filtering by pod names (esp with starts with or contains) to allow for filtering to the list of...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Add Payback period/break even info for S3 optimization

S3 optimizition often includes moving objects from one storage type to another. This movement incurs a cost. This cost is not part of the optimization recommendation information, but can be a barrier to making a change. Having information on the c...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Ability to disable/enable default Cloudability dimensions

Post introduction of the ATUM* dimensions, we realized that our users see too many options in the dimensions dropdown while creating reports and widgets. Not every Cloudability customer needs all the default dimensions as we also introduce dimensi...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Add additional timeline 60 days, 90 days to Rightsizing recommendations

Users would like to have a better understanding of their workload utilisation (containers in particular) before being able to make a decision to rightsizing. Additional timeline options such as 60days & 90days would be helpful for them to make...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Surface time of last data reprocess and data refetch

There is no visibility at the moment when the last data reprocess occurred. This is especially pertinent after creating a business mapping as we would like to know when a data reprocess has happened so we can safely use the business mapping to cre...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2

Include AWS Lambda Functions with detailed metadata in Resource Inventory

We would like to request the inclusion of AWS Lambda functions in the Cloudability Resource Inventory, along with relevant metadata such as runtime version, memory size, timeout configuration and associated tags. This would enable improved visibil...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Add support for Kubernetes Hierarchical Namespaces (HNC)

Engineering/dev teams need to leverage HNC parent-child structure to manage k8s resources Enabling rollup of cost & usage data from the child to the parent level Engineering/dev teams should have the ability to drill down to the k8s component ...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Add Resource Name to GCP Resource Inventory (Compute Engine)

Resource Name is needed to ensure clear identification of GCE resources in Cloudability Resource ID which comes from GCP billing data is not clear enough (it looks more like a path and it doesn't contain the resource name) Resource Name field is c...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Make user access granting process more straightforward

The process required for gaining access to Cloudability for the first time is overly complex, not intuitive and not what one would expect from a SaaS tool from a user perspective. In order to gain fully-fledged access, including to views permittin...
6 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Under review