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Cloudability

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Optimisations should report if changes are required before they can be executed

The latest example of this is the asV6 SKUs which have a dependency for the VM to be running the NVMe disk controller, yet the recommendation is being made for VMs wwith SCSI disk controllers. These optimisations then fail when customers try to ap...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 3 Planned for future release

Enhance Cloudability Dashboarding/Reporting with Multi-View Email Notifications

Enhance Cloudability's reporting capabilities to allow users to configure email notifications for multiple views simultaneously. This could involve: Multi-view emails subscriptions - Allow users to configure/receive emails for each view user is pa...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Allow customers to remove disassociated cloud accounts from Vendor Credentials

It would be good to have the ability to remove accounts from Vendor Credentials that are disassociated or removed from the cloud provider. It doesn't cause harm; it's a question of clean-up and overall management.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Assign Accounts to Customers with easy

On Cloudalibilty Apptio, if you have several customers with several vendors and several account per vendor, you have on Organization page to manually selecte every account to assign to your customer. The screen behaviour is horrible, with no facil...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Planned for future release

Rightsizing ROI to automatically track updates for the tickets created on 10 day Timeline and Incorrect Identification of Rightsized resources.

Currently if a customer is creating a rightsizing ticket for a 10 day timeline, the ticket is not getting updated automatically unless for the same recommendation exist for a 30 day timeline for the same resource id. Also if a resource has been ri...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Can we create an ApptioBI report with a dropdown filter that would have options to show Total Cost, List Cost and Amortized Cost?

Useful to have a dropddown that shows the different costs.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Future consideration

Is the data from "S3 Storage Lens" available in CLDY?

S3 Lens data is useful to optimise costs in S3.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Not under consideration

Rightsizing ROI with a group of resources

in our finops governance, we assign optimization actions to our engineering teams. As a Finops lead, I would like to be able to assign a set of recommendations for an application (through the TAG value), not per resource type (EC2, RDS, EBS etc). ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Keep Apptio Gov Help Up To Date with Commercial

The gov version of Apptio Help seems to not get updated as often as Commercial. According to gov help on 2/10/25 (https://help-gov.apptio.com/cloudability/whats-new.htm), the last update to Cloudability was on September 30, 2024.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Help & Training 1 Planned for future release

Ability to Star Reports I Don't Own

I would like to be able to star an out of the box report without having to make a copy of it. This would be helpful in managing the list of reports and allow me to go to the Starred reports for the ones that I'm interested in.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration