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Cloudability

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Move the Rightsizing preferences from the high admin level to the rightsizing page for each use to chose for himself as a filter

As a big organization Admins we have a lot of accounts under the Cloudability org. and each is in a different place and path in the rightsizing process. We want to enable our user the ability to choose from low level of complication action to high...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Cloudability / BI landing page for new users.

New users to Cloudability typically onboard by requesting SSO access but are without context when logging in to Apptio Cloudability for the first time. I would like to direct first time users to a landing page which would serve as a getting starte...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Create Orphaned resources menu to be able to track deleted resources savings

Savings generated from deleted resources or orphaned resource cleanup is one of categories that Business is asking Cloud teams to track.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Under review

Hide data source cost and usage report (allocated) for certain users

Not all users necessarily understand the difference between the data sources and not that many will be using the cost sharing feature. Hence it should be possible to hide it for some users and show it for others.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Cost (Amortized) metric/cost basis option to be added in Business Mappings details page

Customer uses Cost(Amortized) basis in most of the reports to gain cost visibility for cloud commitment and their allocation to the time and place they are consumed. On organize > Business mapping, when we click on a business mapping to view th...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 5 Not under consideration

Anomoly detection for incorrect pricing being received from vendors

Recent pricing anomolies in dev/test SKU pricing for certain Intel SKUs in North Switzerland resulted in 'incorrect' optimisation opportunities being presented to customer. Whilst the fault was with Microsoft and their pricing, the impact was seen...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 0 Future consideration

Hierarchical Account Picker for Azure Commitments in Committment Portfolio.

Currently we cannot see all the commitments which are bought on the child account when selecting master account as a filter in committment portfolio.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Add integration for Dynatrace to ingest granular metrics for Virtual Machine rightsizing

Currently Cloudability supports New Relic and Datadog for VM utilisation metrics - please can you add support for Dynatrace
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Handle Zero or NA value in Calculated metric

We are using Insights to get notified if % change value is more than 10% over a period of time. To calculate % change over previous period, the logic used is: % change = (Current period cost - Previous period cost ) / Previous period cost The prob...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Commitment Support for Azure NetApp Files

A capacity reservation covers matching capacity pools in the selected service level and region. When using capacity pools configured with cool access, only "hot" tier consumption is covered by the reservation benefit. Azure offer 30 different RI t...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration