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Data Mapping and Organization

Standard Out of the Box field for "Usage Family Category"

There are a plethora of Usage Family values in Cloudability which is awesome -- this really provides a strong foundation for our customers to build on. Per the help center doc (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-enter...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

GCP Cost Data Reporting - Need a Business Dimension that holds GCP Credit data from detailed billing

In Cloudability for GCP, need to create business dimension or tag that holds GCP Credit data.  So that GCP Customers for their FinOps Consumption reporting needs, can drill down to exclude specific GCP Credit IDs to view true consumption.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

GCP Cost Data Reporting - Ability to report on TRUE GCP Consumption v/s Google invoiced net costs

In Cloudability, currently there's no way to report on True GCP consumption versus Google invoiced net cost. Credit inclusion/exclusion is ALL or None currently. If included, Customers cannot distinguish between what has been invoiced post migra...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

GCP Cost Data Reporting - Ability to exclude or include Google Credits by Credit Name, Type & ID

Currently, Credit inclusion/exclusion is ALL or None. Need the ability to exclude or include Google Credits, by Credit Name, Type & ID, in case of various Migration Credits, Promotional Credits, Billing Adjustments This implementation would he...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Version Control Improvements for Business Mappings

Apptio Costing and Planning has a native version control that allows a monthly table to retain schema, layout, etc. from 1 time period to another (between versions). Cloudability's business mapping today requires users to add "Date" and manually s...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Expose SKU from GCP as Part Number dimension in Cloudability

For customers who need to see a GCP SKU for detailed analysis, as it exists in the BQ data please expose this to the Part Number dimension in Cloudability
9 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Snowflake 2.0 DB tags ingestion

Cloudability currently ingests account-level and warehouse-level tags from Snowflake Org 2.0. We would like to request support for ingesting database-level tags as well.
22 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Out of the box field for "Country"

I work with a lot of enterprises that do business globally. They would like to be able to view all of their infrastructure and resources in a country without needing to filter on every single region to do so (that would also be really hard to do)....
10 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 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...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Add "Tokens" as a Dedicated Usage Quantity Unit for AI Consumption

As AI and Generative AI usage becomes increasingly important for cost management and reporting, customers would benefit from a dedicated Tokens Usage Quantity Unit rather than representing token consumption using the generic Count unit. Using a sp...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted