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Cloudability

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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...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Selective Data Reprocessing

Currently the data reprocessing is following. Client raises ticket and asks for Data reprocessing from IBM (CLDY), you acknowledge the ticket, perform full data reprocess with all metrics and dimensions/business mappings for the given period in ba...
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Data Uploads

Currently only IBM (CLDY admins) can see when the Cloud Financial Data has been uploaded through the S3 bucket data transfer. We as end users even we are admins we do not have that visibility. We are not able to see if for example there is data ou...
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

ApptioBI service/App count widget stopped working

This was logged under https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/APPTIO-I-500 but it has now disappeared. The count widget stopped working after an upgrade in Nov.
about 6 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Enable anomaly detection in Cloudability to support user-level alert subscriptions and action tracking, so anomalies can be assigned, acknowledged, and resolved within the platform.

Currently, anomaly detection in Cloudability only provides a list of anomalies across all accounts, with optional alerts that must be configured by administrators. This creates gaps in ownership and accountability because Individual users or accou...
about 17 hours ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Colour (color) control in chart-type widgets

We are finding that some users are becoming confused with the colours in chart-type widgets in Cloudability Dashboards, particularly when tracking differing timelines. I have attached an example where for a given timeline, AWS ECS was the primary ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Should be able to see anomalies at business dimensions and tag level. Currently it is limited to Azure subscription group level.

Current anomalies are at subscription group level. We need to manually check which Application is causing the anomaly for each one of them by creating a report and doing further analysis which is time consuming. We should be able to have anomalies...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Support K8s label based views in Rightsizing.

Being able to provide users with access to only the information relevant to them is important to customers. Customers would like to be able to use K8s label based views to filter to only specific labels in containers. This would filter the list to...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Filtering options for recommended types

AWS EBS storage type filtering requirement: Need to exclude SC1 storage type from right-sizing recommendations. SC1 proposals create false savings reports that require manual explanation why not going to SC1. So if we can have a filtering option t...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

More granular options

Current anomaly detection scope at subscription level is too broad for practical use. We would like to see anomaly detections based on resource groups, instead of subscription. Because subscription is too big. Right now we can't use this feature. ...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review