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Support for Custom S3-Compatible Object Storage Endpoints for Cost Data Ingestion

IBM Apptio Cloudability currently supports ingesting billing and usage data from the native object storage services of the major hyperscalers: Amazon S3 (AWS) Azure Blob Storage Google Cloud Storage Many enterprise customers, however, util...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Submitted

Advanced Filtering and Suppression Controls for Cloudability Anomaly Alert

Users require the ability to define advanced filtering and suppression rules for anomaly alerts so that notifications are not generated for known, expected, and business-approved cloud spend patterns. This would allow organizations to configure al...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection Submitted

In the rightsizing there isn't an option to select multiple rows and close the cloudability issue but requires one-by-one.

Using the rightsizing tool, we created cloudability issues and have to close each one manually not able to select multiple and close all based on a view. Would be helpful to allow closing the issues in bulk.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

In the rightsizing the policy only allows for 100 maximum results to assess to create an issue or incident.

By only allowing 100 maximum results, only 100 are tracked based on the one policy created. We have to have a issue/incident in order to get realized savings. Limiting to 100 requires lots of additional policies to be created and still limits to 1...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Expose GCP Credit Type as a native reporting dimension and attribute

GCP detailed billing exports provide credit specific metadata, including Credit Type and Credit Name, within the Credit column. While Cloudability surfaces credit amounts and descriptions, the native Credit Type field is not currently available as...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Export all of rightsizing data in one export

We have users that use the rightsizing chart for FIG and want to export all of AWS and AZURE with its services (for example, aws: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS) all in one export. Instead right now they are having to create several exports for AWS and AZURE f...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI Submitted

1. Add image widget support to cloudability dashboards: Based on your Cloudability dashboard work and the existing widget-centric dashboard model documented in your Cloudability Quick Reference version 3 (6-6-2025), dashboards currently focus on data-driven widgets and visualizations. An image widget would be a useful enhancement for dashboard usability and executive reporting. 2. Cascade login to support pages, I should not have to login to IBM to create a case when I'm logged into Cloudability. 3. Have the UI updated to include a feature for submitting enhancement requests.

Cloudability dashboards provide excellent financial analytics but could be significantly enhanced with richer business storytelling capabilities such as image widgets, rich text widgets, embedded content, and executive-summary components that prov...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Feature to freeze columns/dimensions in Explore tab

When looking at more than a week or so of data, when scrolling to the right, the dimensions are not visible. Having the capability to freeze the dimensions allows users to scroll to the right side of the dashboard without having to refer back to t...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Submitted

Enable "Cost (Adjusted)" as a Configurable Metric for Anomaly Detection

Problem Statement: Currently, IBM Cloudability’s Anomaly Detection engine relies exclusively on the "Cost (Total)" metric. This creates significant operational noise, as billing artifacts like credits, refunds, and tax adjustments trigger false-po...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection Submitted

Enable granular Datadog cost ingestion and reporting within Cloudability to provide detailed visibility into Datadog spend, usage drivers, and cost allocation.

Customers with significant Datadog investments currently have limited visibility into Datadog costs within Cloudability. While overall spend can be tracked, the lack of granular cost and usage data prevents customers from analyzing Datadog expendi...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration