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Cloudability

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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 ,...
27 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.
27 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Under review

Subscribe to Multiple Views for Cloud Spend Summary Emails Notification

Currently, Cloud Spend Summary Emails notification is limited only available for a Single Default View. However, as platform/business owners, we are managing multiple applications which managed through different customized Views. It would be great...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Needs more information

Commitment Recs are not compatible with tag based views

Currently when trying to view commitment recommendations for Azure and also using business mapping based views results in a message saying that tag based views are not supported for commitment recommendations. See attached screenshot. We would lik...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Hiding a project in TBM Studio and keeping it's dataset visible in Apptio BI

Users should be able to hide a TBM Studio project from people with RBI-PowerUser role, making it only visible to people with specific role, while keeping the dataset published to ApptioBI visible. Currently it's difficult to work with the publishe...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Cloudability Integration with Dynatrace to provide memory metrics

Hi Team, Integrating Cloudability with Dynatrace will help in providing memory metrics to the cldy, which will provide more accurate results on the rightsizing recommendations.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration

Expose billing measure variable

The client wants to add a column that shows the billing method for that resource, whether it is per GB, GB/Month, etc. So that they can get more details in their reports.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 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...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

The right sizing resources which are displayed should be able to filtered based on the business dimension

When it comes to right-sizing, all the filtering currently happens at the account level, while the information displayed is at the resource level (by resource ID). There needs to be a way to link these two levels so the process becomes more practi...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists