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

Add heat map widget charts

Heat maps can show a larger amount of data at one point for status and give an idea how big each area of concern is. They support understanding data density, trends and patterns in large data sets. Customers use this diagram type in other applicat...
about 3 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Use data from AWS CUR normalized_usage_amount available as Normalized Usage Hours

Using the same normalized usage amount as the CUR provides will allow customers to understand how the flexible RIs are allocated. These kinds of RIs can fluctuate between instances and information on usage amounts will help in understanding why th...
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Ability to disable all emails for a particular user or user group

Some users do not want any emails from the system, users (and admins) would like to be able to disable all system notifications for particular users. They do not want emails about shared reports, daily report summaries or alert notifications (vend...
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

For container rightsizing, add data on whether horizontal pod autoscaling (HPA) is on to the available data

Having information on HPA status is helpful in determining how to respond to rightsizing recommendations. It would be useful for customers to have this in Cldy vs. needing to look to other tools to find this information.
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Need more than 2 Decimals

Pulling report for Executives and the Rate dimension reflects zero cost, but the Usage Quantity and Cost Total reflect and expense. Quantity *0 = 0, but there is expense, so the Rate dimension is not reflecting correctly.
about 7 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

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 11 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 11 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 15 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 4 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...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review