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Cloudability

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Report exports should show business mapping names as column headers rather than reference IDs

When a business mapping field is used as a dimension in a report, the mapping name shown in the UI does not get passed through the exported report. Instead the column name would be something like 'category1'. This is really annoying and potentiall...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Expansion of Portfolio to Korea Hosting(MS Azure-Seoul)

As per the link on the page below, KT has signed a strategic partnership with MS. https://news.microsoft.com/2024/09/28/kt-corporation-and-microsoft-take-giant-step-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-in-korea/ KT Cloud, a subsidiary of KT, has a plan to ...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Not under consideration

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...
27 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

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

Provide ability to surface all CUR columns in Cloudability's reporting

Many of our customers have custom use cases that require more fields in the CUR than Cloudability provides. An example is the Legal Entity field. Surfacing Legal Entity would enable better visibility into the 3rd party vendor that is being purchas...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 3 Under review

Adding sustainability metrics to rightsizing recommendations

There is strong evidence industry wide that a large percentage of engineers are more likely to take action based off carbon emission reduction recommendation than cost. ( largely as engineers may not have a budget responsibility as part of their r...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Ability to Report on the Azure Recommendations

The ability to generate a report that compares existing commitments against recommended commitments, enabling us to identify under-provisioning or over-provisioning across different workloads.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 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

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 ...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted