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Cloudability

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Enhance/Limit role permission for ViewsFeatureCreateOwnViewsAccess

As the FinOps practitioner for a large organization, it is important that our tenants are able to be self sufficient in their data. As such, we have implemented a custom Cloudability user role that contains the permission ViewsFeatureCreateOwnView...
4 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 1 Future consideration

IOPS & Throughput Added to Workload Optimization Calculations

Cloudability Rightsizing recommendations are based primarily on CPU, Memory and GPU utilization (in the case of A2 and G2 instances). However, it’s important to note that throughput and IOPS characteristics are not currently factored into these re...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Hourly breakdown of usage data for AWS and Azure

Useful to get usage trends of our instances in order to track shutdown in nbh, trends on hourly usage, etc.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Functionality already exists

Incorporate Calendar Month in Custom Formula Calculated Metric

Calculated Metrics are being used to define the budget for a given month. We take a value and multiply it by the number of days in the month. We would like to be able to configure a calculated metric to be able to dynamically determine the number ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Tracking Snowflake prepaid credits

In the case of Snowflake and Azure Databricks, we prepay for a set number of capacity units. In the case of Databricks, it is DBUs. Each job that runs, etc, has a DBU spend attached to it. This is the same for Snowflake. It comes through as $0 dol...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Include actual field names for metadata in the Resource Inventory Extract

Currently, the Resource Inventory csv extract shows only generic ("Tag 42") field headings. The actual field headings ("Cost Center") are available in the UI, and these same headings should appear in the csv extract, otherwise the exported data is...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

API to delete business mapping entries while leaving the business mapping itself

At present, one must replace existing mappings with a dummy mapping to remove entries. Keeping the mapping itself is needed for automation as it's id is needed.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Is a defect

Rightsizing Widget: Increase Data Window from 10 to 30 Days

Currently, the Rightsizing widget displays data for only the past 10 days, but based on suggestion from ticket TS019147686, we propose extending this to a 30-day range.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Commitment Portfolio - Customer want to set the alerts based on Usage family and Service

Commitment Portfolio - Customer want to set the alerts based on Usage family and Service
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Partner access that removes access to see fully loaded costs and work out the enterprise discount

Within my client they work extensively with external entities [TCS, CTS, WIPRO etc] to manage their infrastructure. They do not want to allow these partners to see the full costs in cloudability that are shown in the dashboarding and insights pane...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration