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Cloudability

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Filtering options for recommended types

AWS EBS storage type filtering requirement: Need to exclude SC1 storage type from right-sizing recommendations. SC1 proposals create false savings reports that require manual explanation why not going to SC1. So if we can have a filtering option t...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

More granular options

Current anomaly detection scope at subscription level is too broad for practical use. We would like to see anomaly detections based on resource groups, instead of subscription. Because subscription is too big. Right now we can't use this feature. ...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Ability to customize starting month for pans

When we generate forecast using plans feature, we should be able to customize starting month for plans. This will help tracking our commitments with CSPs. For example - If we have a commitment with CSP starting from Sep-2025 for 2 years. I dont ne...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

Update to use amortised metric especially for Azure

With Azure spend if you are using Reservations or Savings plans the spend will only show up in the Cost amortised extracts otherwise under the cost actuals/total it shows zero spend. Therefore the anomaly tracking within Cloudability isn't correct...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Commitment Support for Microsoft Fabric

Commitment Support for Microsoft Fabric
6 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

AD groups feature should allow assigning a default view to the group

Recently released AD group integration in Cloudability only allows user to share view with a group. We would want to be able to assign a default view to a group, so any new group member would have a default view assigned scoped to the given group.
28 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Allow for Azure Memor Metrics collection via Azure Monitor Logs

Microsoft will be depreciation Memory collection via the Azure Diagnostics extension. This will require the use of a monitor agent and Azure Monitor. Customer already has memory collection using Azure Monitor Logs. Since this isnt current supporte...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Customizable metric multiplier / threshold for rightsizing recommendation

In some production enviroments, workloads are intentionally overprovisioned to allow for burst capacity, stability or failover requirements.In most cases this is has to do with compliance and regulations bound apps. We propose addig a metric multi...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

We should be able to pull Azure Utilization data into reports and dashboards in Cloudability & Apptio BI

Currently utilization data for Azure is in Resource Inventory. But we need to be able to pull it into reports and create widgets for our dashboards. Our IT teams and leaders would want to see these metrics in a summarized way without having to go ...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted