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Cloudability

Automated tracking of OpenShift Licensing Costs

Customers leverage Kubecost to help understand the total cost of ownership of their kubernetes clusters. For customers who use Red Hat OpenShift, a key component of these costs is the licensing fees. While customers today can leverage the CSV manu...
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Kubecost/Advanced Containers Under review

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...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Submitted

On account (subscription) closure or suspension in Azure or AWS, provide functionality to automatically archive or delete the vendor credentials (user selection).

Useful: This is useful for anyone that works in an environment where change management is difficult (most large enterprises) and being able to specify a setting to automatically scavenge (cleanup) close accounts or subscriptions would save a lot o...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 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...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

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 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Look Back Further when Determining Anomalies

There are costs that occur on a monthly basis. Look back 60+ days in order for the system to utilize monthly seasonality
4 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 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...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection Under review

Service Now Integration - Support for custom tables

As of now, Cloudability Rightsizing does not support custom tables serviceNow integration. We only support incidents, requests, and ticket types that are extension of requests. The suggestion is to include the the custom tables we have in Service ...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Submitted

Allow admins to bulk-create budgets across multiple views and set up email alert subscriptions on behalf of users

Currently, budgets are scoped at the individual View level, so organizations tracking budgets per application (e.g., 100 applications) must create a separate view for each one. There is no bulk or templated way to create budgets across many views ...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Under review

Enable Azure Disk Reservation Recommendations within Commitments

Extend the Commitments capability in Cloudability to include Azure Managed Disk reservation recommendations. The feature should analyze disk usage patterns, identify consistently utilized disks eligible for one-year reservation terms, and provide ...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted