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Cloudability

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There can be scorecard based widgets in Dashboards or ApptioBi which can be used for Reporting.

It will be a good resource for my customer. Using this they will be able to create something high-level reports which will be easily digestible by leadership teams
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Other 0 Future consideration

Export csv files in both US and non-US locale

If we are exporting data using a csv, the default number decimal separator is "." However in for instance Europe and South America we use the comma "," as a decimal separator. This means if we export a csv the comma needs to replaced by another se...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Commitment Support Azure Blob Storage

A reservation covers storage capacity for Blob storage and Azure Data Lake Gen2 storage. The reservation doesn't cover bandwidth or transaction rates. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and...

Provide container rightsizing recommendations for Karpenter nodepools similar to what is provided for ASG nodes

Karpenter is becoming an industry standards, my customers want container rightsizing recommendations for Karpenter node pools.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Allow customization to the container cost allocation algorithm

Currently the cost allocation is based on the instances used in the cluster. Customers would also like to be able to tailor the cost allocation for specific clusters or be able to assign their own weight for some workload types. Possible configura...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow scheduled BI dashboard reports to be delivered in Excel (XLSX) or CSV format, in addition to PDF.

Currently, Cloudability only supports scheduled BI dashboard report delivery via email in PDF format. For reporting flexibility, we would like the ability to receive scheduled dashboard exports in CSV or Excel format. This would enable better data...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Have ability to enter a hypothetical Savings Plan purchase amount and terms and return estimated savings and coverage metrics

Problem:Right now the Optimize → Commitment Recs → AWS → Compute Savings Plan recommendation tooling only provides recommendations to achieve maximum savings coverage for current workloads. However, some organizations have a lower risk tolerance a...

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

Rightsizing opportunities for Azure Recovery Services

Customer would like to request the addition of rightsizing optimisation capabilities for Azure Recovery Services (ASR). This feature would allow customers to automatically evaluate and recommend optimal virtual machine (VM) sizes and configuration...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Ability for Cloudability to support more than one currency per environment

Currently, Cloudability supports multi-currency for customers if they need to convert all cost to one single currency, but there's no ability to toggle between multiple currencies. This is a struggle for customers with users in multiple countries ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Not under consideration