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Cloudability

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Views - Can't see who created/using

Admins can't see who created a given View and who is using. We are left with stale Views do to not being able to validate if still in use or if a View is owned by someone that is no longer with company or changed roles. Also a way to easily downlo...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Reporting on App Service Environments in Azure.

CBA have a use case where many of their workloads are moving to ASE. We dont get much granularity from ASE in the cost reporting - however via the SPN we deploy we could possibly use that to gain better insights for ASE.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Provide ability to expand tables within PDF Report

Provide the ability to expand on the tables embedded in the PDF report. Specifically for tables that have subtotals configured
16 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Provide a Concurrent Count of VMs

This will help determine an accurate count of non-ephemeral workloads, which will help with software licensing requirements etc.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Allow for the customization for additional months of data refetch

Credits are often issued for charges further back than the current or previous month. Allow for the customization to refetch data back multiple months by default, preventing a manual refetch process
17 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Under review

Add RDS Customizations to Rightsizing Preferences Page

This would allow for the customization of what recommendations are being made for RDS, either by usage family, costs, etc
17 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Provide Functionality to trigger an Anomaly based on a larger time sample. i.e Month over Month, vs Day over Dat

This helpful as they had a service that was idle for two months and it inadvertently started being used. It took a few days for it to be detected as anomalous behavior. Using a Month over Month time frame, might have triggered an alert earlier.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Ability to create multiple rightsizing ticket for the same resource

Currently if a customer creates a rightsizing ticket for one issue and act on it. Now after 30 days , customer receives another recommendation for the same resource , there is no option to create a separate ticket as it will still show the previou...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Integration with Grafana Cloud for enhanced rightsizing recommendations

Currently, there is an integration with Datadog that retrieves additional data points and enhances the rightsizing recommendations. It would be great to be able to integrate other open source observability tools such as Grafana Cloud for the same ...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Cloudability: S3 Bucket Prefixes

We are trying to use Apptio to analyze my AWS costs, but I noticed that it doesn't support S3 bucket prefixes. That means I can't filter or group my data by different prefixes within the same bucket. That's a bummer, because I have a lot of prefix...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted