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Status Submitted
Workspace Cloudability
Categories Rate Optimization (Commitments)
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 2, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Direct Chronosphere Connector for Utilization Data (Avoid Broad GCP Permissions)

Problem Statement: To enable GCP commitment tracking in Cloudability, "Advanced Credentials" are currently required. However, the associated script requires two high-level permissions that violate Yahoo’s security policies:

storage.buckets.list: Exposes all bucket names across the organization.

monitoring.timeSeries.list: Grants broad, org-wide read access to all Cloud Monitoring metrics.

Security/Architecture Conflict: Yahoo's utilization data is already centralized in Chronosphere (DCP_I29). Granting a third-party Service Account (SA) broad access to Google Cloud Monitoring bypasses our established observability architecture and creates an unnecessary security risk.

Proposed Solution: Develop a direct Chronosphere Connector for Cloudability, similar to the existing integrations for New Relic and Datadog. This would allow Cloudability to ingest the necessary utilization data directly from our existing observability provider without requiring over-privileged access to the GCP organization.

Business Impact: Currently, we cannot fully automate commitment tracking for GCP due to these security blocks. A direct connector would ensure data parity with our other observability tools and maintain our "least-privilege" security posture.

Idea priority Low

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