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Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Add Resource Name to GCP Resource Inventory (Compute Engine)

Resource Name is needed to ensure clear identification of GCE resources in Cloudability Resource ID which comes from GCP billing data is not clear enough (it looks more like a path and it doesn't contain the resource name) Resource Name field is c...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Disk usage metric for EBS and GPD

Currently we cannot look at the disk usage data for EBS and GPD, most of the disks are over provisioned and we pay for what we allocate than what we use. Cloudability is showing these metrics for RDS in AWS, why cant we do it for EBS and GPD with ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Customer wants to download the Report in PDF Format.

Got a response from the Customer- "Basically, any report should be exportable in .pdf format so that when we send an email to someone, it does not take them back to Cloudability but still they can see the data. Let me know if you have any questions."
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

Enable vCPU Usage Metrics for Azure in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability supports vCPU tracking for AWS and GCP, but Azure data lacks this metric. Since vCPU is crucial for Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and overall FinOps decision-making. Without this feature, Azure customers lack vis...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Allow reporting on Cloudability Right-sizing recommendations based on last 30 days in addition to 10 days in Apptio BI

The "Cloudability Right-sizing" data set in Apptio BI is locked on showing the recommendations that have been generated using the last 10 days of utilization data. There should be an option to either use the 10 days or 30 days utilization data bas...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

Improvement on Totals

Opened Ticket#TS018957744 and was told the ability to have BI Reports give Total for Jan-Dec (with months showing) wasn't available currently. Not having this feature leads to a download into Excel. Option should be a basic feature.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Planned for future release

Ability to color-code calculated metrics

Customer would like the ability to replicate 'Budget Variance Details' from Plans. Currently, we can use a calculated metric to recreate the Variance, however, customer likes that Plans color codes the variance based on increase/decrease. Ability ...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Chart formatting capabilities

Formatting options to include Title font sizes, bolding, colors. Ability to change contract for Cldy. Bar/line color options so we can create widgets that always have AWS in Blue and Azure in Red for example.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release