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Cloudability

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Display Hourly Data

Having this additional level of granularity would help to improve analysis of trends and outliers. The instructions to pull the AWS CUR data into Cloudability specifies that we should select hourly granularity, so the data should already exist, it...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Under review

Have more than 5 dimensions that can be added within a plan

Hi,We would like the ability to add more than five dimensions to a plan. This flexibility is important for us, as we often need to filter and analyze data across multiple dimensions to meet various business needs. Different business units have uni...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 3 Not under consideration

Request for new features in the Cloudability budget notification section

This is a request for new features in the Cloudability budget notification section: 1. Indefinite Budget Duration: Currently, the maximum budget duration is 18 months. We request an option to set budgets for an indefinite period, similar to AWS Bu...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Data ingestion for OCI

Currently there are limmited options to ingest data from OCI if you do not have access to the master account. In our oganisation we are the child tenant of a master organisation, therefore we are having difficulties ingesting the CUR from OCI. ORA...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Azure Backup

A capacity reservation lowers storage costs of backup data in a Recovery Services Vault. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look at our product and ask where the additional reserved instance recommendations ar...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure Database for MySQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the MySQL Database server. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers look a...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

AWS - Add additional RI & SP Metrics

Per Case #00352871, requested to submit Enhancement, as the metrics I need in Cloudability/BI are not available. NetUnblendedCost, ReservationNetEffectiveCost & SavingsPlanNetEffectiveCost
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

BI - Ability to see who is subscribed to or accessing Reports

Admins need a way to see who is subscribed to or accessing/viewing the report/dashboard to allow for notification if report/dashboard is planned for deletion. When personnel change roles or leave company, we are stuck with old reports that can't b...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3

Cloudability Ownership/Users of Reports and Dashboards

It'd be helpful to see a "creation date" and and "created by" value for each dashboard, and report. As an Admin to also have access to see reports that aren't shared with Organization. When personnel leave company or role, can't remove/reassign fr...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Improve currently non-intuitive Right-Sizing policies and ROI functionality

1) When creating a right-sizing policy, clicking "Save and Run" will only generate tickets according to the schedule, rather than to run the policy immediately. This is confusing. If I set a Daily schedule and click Save and Run it will generate a...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Planned for future release