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Cloudability

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Add information to Vendor Credential page explaining reason for advanced credentials

Currently we do not see any official documentation from IBM about what features are impacted by what we call Advanced Credentialling. It would be very helpful to add a text box in the application UI somewhere in the credentialling page explaining ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

feature Budgets & Forecasting - remove Taxes on "Actual Cost"

When we forecasting, the actual cost brings taxes influencing all the cost values and forecasting itself. Our proposal is to remove taxes from this exercise NOTE: Already solved with business mapping and views
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Needs more information

Enable vCPU Usage Metrics for Azure in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability supports vCPU tracking for AWS and GCP, but Azure data lacks this metric. Since vCPU is crucial for Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and overall FinOps decision-making. Without this feature, Azure customers lack vis...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Only admins should be able to share dashboard with org

We want to only allow admins to share a dashboard with the organisation. There should be a setting to enforce this. This is to ensure we have a gatekeeper for company-wide cost views and visualisations.
2 months ago in Cloudability 0 Future consideration

One time assignment of default dashboard and view for users based on roles

We want to, as the FinOps team, to be able to assign default dashboard and view for users depending on their roles.
2 months ago in Cloudability 0 Future consideration

Exclude No action recommendations

When we look at data in the rightsizing panel we often see recommendation with the recommendation 'no action' (in all scenario's whether we are using 10/30 days and on-demand/effective rate. We like to filter out this data from the rightsizing pre...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Allow reporting on Cloudability Right-sizing recommendations based on last 30 days in addition to 10 days in Apptio BI

The "Cloudability Right-sizing" data set in Apptio BI is locked on showing the recommendations that have been generated using the last 10 days of utilization data. There should be an option to either use the 10 days or 30 days utilization data bas...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

Show comparative daily figure

generally find it useful - but in February and March it is always going to show the wrong data as it is comparing days with different number of days. It would be more useful if the headline showed a comparative daily figure for the daily run rate ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to pull usage metrics from Cloudability into TBM Studio

Currently we can only pull cost into studio. Would would like to be able to pull other metrics such as vCPU Hours.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Other 1 Not under consideration

It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping

It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping so that users can compare "Week on Week" costs.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration