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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...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Anomaly Detection- Provide ability to filter using account group tags

As a FinOps Practitioner at an organization where account groups are utilized for cost allocation, I need to be able to allocate anomalies detected to the appropriate owner, however, there is no ability to filter on account group tag info. It's im...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

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,...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Enable anomaly detection in Cloudability to support user-level alert subscriptions and action tracking, so anomalies can be assigned, acknowledged, and resolved within the platform.

Currently, anomaly detection in Cloudability only provides a list of anomalies across all accounts, with optional alerts that must be configured by administrators. This creates gaps in ownership and accountability because Individual users or accou...
11 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

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

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...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Add support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets in Rightsizing

Please add support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) rightsizing recommendations, this is a very common deployment option for virtual machines, much like ASG's in AWS. Not having rightsizing support is a big gap in what is common to be a...

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...
9 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.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Reporting of Cloudability User Metrics for Administrators

As an Administrator of our Cloudability/ApptioBI system I have a requirement to report on my colleagues overall usage of your products to my management. Namely: Cloudability, ApptioBI, and (limited) TBM/Apptio One. This could be console access, vi...
17 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted