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Cloudability

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Enable Cloudability Rightsizing to Ingest Memory Usage Directly from Azure Platform Metrics (without DCR/AMA)

Currently, Cloudability’s Azure rightsizing recommendations require memory usage data to be ingested via DCR (Data Collection Rules) and AMA (Azure Monitor Agent) deployments on workloads. While this works, it creates unnecessary deployment overhe...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 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

Cloudability Access Logs / Report views by user

Much like how Apptio Costing has a usage project within an environment, The customer would like something similar for Cloudability / BI. Customer would like the ability to see which users are viewing which reports and at what rate (ex: John Doe vi...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Reports, Dashboards / User Management & Login 1 Future consideration

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Increase Dimension count via API data pulls

This request is to expand the limits of the reporting API endpoint to allow more than 15 dimensions. We’ve been hitting a limit on that for some of the workflows we have and was hoping there would be a solution for that.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 5 Not under consideration

Option to disable the Daily emails on cost summary for across the Org

Hi Team, an option to disable the daily cloud cost summaries emails sent to users would be great, as customer has mentioned the email is irrelevant to the most stakeholders in the org, and currently we cannot disable the emails for other users, ev...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Not under consideration

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Ability to see Container K8s labels along with other tags and labels in Resource Inventory

When looking at the utilization of resources it is useful to know what applications are running against that infrastructure. Including the K8s labels in the data would be helpful in assessing the use of the resources.
29 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Make TPU and GPU information from GCP available in reporting

Customers would like to see the size and memory capacity of their TPUs and GPUs. Understanding cost footprint associated with TPU and GPU sizes and capabilities is important for optimization and planning for the future.
29 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Future consideration

Ability to have a reporting dimension for Azure - TERM - to create reports for reservations based on their term (1y -3y)

Currenty it it only possible to have the reservations term visibility using the commitment portfolio. The ask is to add a new dimension TERM, which will help users to categorize reseravtions based on their term (1 year or 3 year). We have tried cr...
29 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration