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Cloudability

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Calculated Metrics using Cloudability Usage Data within Apptio BI (Cloudability GovCloud)

As a user of a GovCloud Cloudability instance, it would be beneficial to have a feature to create calculated metrics referencing cost data from Cloudability. We currently cannot easily create metrics such as "percentage of total spend", based on t...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Forecasting Capability in Apptio BI reports

Ability to add forecast widgets based on the set budgets. To understand the estimated future cost for a particular workload (compute, Storage etc).
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release

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...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Under review

Remove 'Utilisation Data' radio button for non-AWS customers

A number of our consumers use Cloudability as a central source of data but are left dispondant becuase they try to use the 'Utilisation Data' radio button under metrics and dimensions. As we are an Azure consumer and the Utilisation Data is only a...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Ability for admins to toggle cloudability features off and on

In a large enterprise not all functionality provided by Apptio can be simply exposed to customers. A good example of this recently was the new Sustainability feature, in a regulated industry there is some sensitivity around making sure figures aro...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Governance 0 Future consideration

Include / Exclude option for Cloud Service Provider(s)

Whilst I appreciate that Cloudability is a Multi-cloud SaaS service, it would be really nice if the customer could toggle the various CSP's off or on as a configuration setting. If a customer is only using a single CSP, it would be beneficial to t...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Widget that allows block of text to be inserted for explanations in Cloudability

Allowing annotation in text blocks would allow the central team to add additional information that is important for consumers to understand when interpreting the data
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Ability to create stacked graphs in CLDY.

Example to limit results to x number and dynamically group the remaining spend into an "Other" dimension. Functionality was previous released for Apptio BI but we do not intend to adopt Apptio BI so would like this functionality in Cloudability re...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future 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...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Allow Surfacing of the Workload data points in Reporting

The workload data points within Container Insights are very helpful for reviewing the cost and (over)provisioning within each namespace; while the data can to an extent be manually extracted from the Container Insights page, having workload level ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Needs more information