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Cloudability

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Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Request for Granular Filtering in Anomaly Detection Alerting

While Cloudability does allow for specified anomaly detection alerts through customizable business dimensions, the process is overly cumbersome. The customer has requested that anomaly detection alerts allow for more granular filtering by default,...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Flagging Promotional Credits in GCP as Promotional Credits instead of falling under the general bucket of credits

Customers like Ulta and others have millions of dollars in Promotional Credits each year. Currently Cloudability doesn't offer the option to flag these promotional credits as Promotional Credits, rather they fall under the general bucket of Credit...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Cloudability MCP (Model Context Protocol)

We are currently building a FinOps Assistant GENAI, we have already other sources to enhance our FinOps assistant e.g AWS Billing and Cost Management official MCP, JIRA official MCP, DataDog official MCP and so on. What we are missing now is the C...
7 days ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Adjustable lookback period for rightsizing recommendations is required.

Currently only 2 options for lookback period are available: 1. 10 day 2. 30 day I want lookback period to be adjustable up to 90 days, as 90 days sufficiently account for the seasonality in workload utilisation.
7 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the OS Version field of the Instances as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the OS Version inf...
25 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Submitted

Request for Trace Log Functionality

With the current product capabilities, it is not possible to capture logs of user actions. Since operation logs for various configuration changes are not available, it is impossible to identify, for example, who created a business mapping or when ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

Add dimensions to Apptio BI to mirror info from Rightsizing

Add more dimensions regarding Rightsizing data source in Apptio BI. Currently we have situations where in Apptio BI reporting we have only current and recommended instance type but that is not what is being recommended to be changed: for example, ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add COIN reporting as a native capability

Cloudability has all of the data to enable COIN reporting natively in the dashboarding and reporting, yet the only way to achieve this today is to take the cost and rightsizing data out of Cloudability to an external tool to join and present it. C...

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.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release