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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,...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Ability to Restrict API Key Creation by Role

Currently any Cloudability user can create API Keys. The only way to prevent end users from creating API Keys is to disable API Keys completely across the domain. However admins need API Keys to be able to do some admin related tasks for both Clou...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 2 Planned for future release

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...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Cloudability Forecasting improvement

In Cloudability, the forecasting model skews forecasts post February because of the number of days in Feb. I suggest using a 30 day normalized approach for forecasting to improve the linear forecasting approach. Currently, as a FinOps practitioner...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

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...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection

Idea = Enable Business Mapping-based Views to work on Anomaly Detection Current Limitation: • In Current State, the Views that are based on Business Mappings (e.g. Department, Cost Center, Prod vs. NonProd) DO NOT work for filtering the Anomaly De...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Planned for future release

Disk usage metric for EBS and GPD

Currently we cannot look at the disk usage data for EBS and GPD, most of the disks are over provisioned and we pay for what we allocate than what we use. Cloudability is showing these metrics for RDS in AWS, why cant we do it for EBS and GPD with ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Recommendations

The commitment recommendations functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Commitment Management 2.0 for Azure Commitment Portfolio

The commitment portfolio functionality in AWS and GCP is great. I would like to see this supported in Azure.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Add heat map widget charts

Heat maps can show a larger amount of data at one point for status and give an idea how big each area of concern is. They support understanding data density, trends and patterns in large data sets. Customers use this diagram type in other applicat...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release