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Cloudability

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More of a Bug than an idea. Currently unutilized part of a Savings plan shows Reservations class as "Standard" which is a class suitable for RIs.

For a customer Reservation Class is showing as "Standard" despite the Lease Type being Savings Plan. This happens specifically for Transaction Type "Recurring Charge". Implecation being that the unused part of a Savings Plan is being tagged under ...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add GPU Utilization metrics in Cloudability

We have a subscription owner whose application uses only N-type VMs (GPU-Optimized VMs). They mentioned that the relevant metric for them is GPU utilization. However, GPU utilization is not currently available as a metric in Cloudability. In the f...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

Change commitment portfolio to not show incomplete data

Savings Portfolio - daily savings and utilization graphs need to avoid using a red bar for the current day (early morning?). This seemed to me to be a warning to be researched, but instead it was just that the current day's data had not been fully...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Azure Utilization data

I suggest to make Azure Utilization data available in Apptio BI to build reports based on the data. And in addition to expose the data to the API.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2

Rightsizing ROI Widget totals based on 30/10 days, on-demand/effective

The current widget totals displaying the potential savings and realized savings show add up 10-days and 30-day timeline amounts. However the ticket is created this is how the potential and realized savings are displayed. Thus the total figures are...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

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

AWS - Add additional RI & SP Metrics

Per Case #00352871, requested to submit Enhancement, as the metrics I need in Cloudability/BI are not available. NetUnblendedCost, ReservationNetEffectiveCost & SavingsPlanNetEffectiveCost
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Views - Allow by Seller

Current View options only allows by Vendor, which restricts us from filtering out AWS Marketplace. If we could create a View by Seller, this would remove Marketplace purchases
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

BI - Reuse of colors/Edit colors

Due to reuse of colors, can’t identify legend, due to color duplication on charts. Color palettes need to editable, as when trying to stay consistent, say with a given Vendor on multiple charts, the color should remain consistent, not vary each time.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

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