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Dark mode toggle ability

Aside from being trendy within UI design, enabling dark mode can have benefits for all users, including but not limited to: Reduced Eye Strain in Low Light: Less bright light from the screen can make it more comfortable in dim environments, reduci...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0

Show Latest Forecast Estimate: Actuals + Forecast

It would be very useful to be able to compare Forecast and Estimate, where the Forecast can comprise actuals data for completed months, as opposed to the original forecast. This would give a more helpful Forecast Variance position where the "Lates...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Allow date filters based on Invoice Date not only usage date

When validating Invoices, the usage date and the invoice periods are not always the same. We need to validate invoices that include usage in the future (esp for GCP which bills in PST vs. UTC). Allowing the date filter to be based on usage date, w...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Anomaly Alert Digest & Grouping

We're currently using Cloudability Anomaly Alerts, and each detected anomaly triggers its own individual notification. This can result in a large number of alerts in a short period of time. Is it possible to configure Cloudability to send a consol...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

New timing period selection used to set when 'data is available' (e.g. sustainability)(offset)

Take Sustainability data. It is not made available until mid month, for the previous month.i.e. around 16/17th July the June sustainability metrics become available.i.e. around 16/17th August the July sustainability metrics become available.At pre...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

ApptioBI custom calculated metric functions like average, count, min, max

I would like to be able to use normal excel like functions in custom calculations in ApptioBI calculated metrics.i.e. Count, Sum, Avg, Min, Max, etc e.g. Average monthly( Cost(Total) ), Count(RDS instances), etc
2 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Enhanced Financial Transparency & Real-Time Reconciliation - Financial Integrity and Operational Efficiency - reconciliation automation

Roadmap Proposal: Enhanced Financial Transparency & Real-Time Reconciliation Problem Statement The current cloud cost reporting lacks a direct lineage between billing line items and actual inventory transactions. This creates a "black box" dur...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 6 Planned for future release

Alert when net savings become negative

I can set alerts when a commitment drops below a set threshold percent but I want to know when ANY commitment becomes negative in net savings. Is this feature available and hidden or does it need to be a new feature?
4 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Functionality already exists

Request to allow unsubscribe from Budget alerts with BudgetsFeatureViewOnlyAccess permission

I checked the behavior of the role with permission BudgetsFeatureViewOnlyAccess and confirmed that: Users with this permission can create/subscribe to Budget alerts However, they cannot edit or delete existing Budget subscriptions When attempting ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration