Cloudability Essentials

Getting started

• What you can do with Cloudability
• How to access Cloudability
• Find your way around Cloudability
• First steps for Cloudability users
• First steps for Cloudability admin

What's new in Cloudability

• Cloudability What's new in Cloudability

Getting data into Cloudability

• Connect Amazon Web Services
• Cloudability Connect Microsoft Azure
  • Cloudability Set up Cost Management for Cloudability Azure Enrollment Agreement (EA) customers
  • Cloudability Set up Cost Management APIs for Cloudability Azure Enrollment Agreement (EA) customers
  • Cloudability Set up Cost Management for Cloudability Azure Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) customers
  • Cloudability Set up Cost Management APIs for Cloudability Azure Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) customers
  • Cloudability Set up Advanced Credentials, Azure Rightsizing and Reserved Instance Planning
  • Cloudability Set up Azure Memory Metrics Collection (using Azure Monitor)
  • Cloudability Set up Azure Memory Metrics Collection (using Azure Monitoring Agent)
  • Cloudability Supplemental: About Azure Resource Group Tags
• Cloudability Connect Google Cloud
  • Cloudability Set up GCP Monitoring Agent for rightsizing
  • Cloudability Setting up Custom Pricing Support for GCP
  • Cloudability Setting up Commitment Portfolio for GCP

• Connect Oracle Cloud
  • Federating a User for OCI Credentialing

• Cloudability Connect IBM Cloud
  • Cloudability Setup IBM Cloud Credentials using Cloudability Method
  • Cloudability Setup IBM Cloud Credentials using Deployable Architecture (DA) App
• Connect Turbonomic and Cloudability
• Cloudability Setting up Custom Pricing Support for GCP
• Cloudability Setting up Custom Pricing Support for GCP
• Cloudability Connect Datadog - Utilization Data
  • Cloudability Connect Datadog - Utilization Data
  • Cloudability Connect Datadog - Cost and Usage Data />

• Connect MongoDB
• Cloudability Connect Snowflake
• Cloudability Connect Jira Cloud
• Cloudability Connect to ServiceNow
• Cloudability Connect Pagerduty
• Connect New Relic and Cloudability

• Cloudability Kubernetes cluster provisioning
  • Cloudability Common Kubernetes Metrics Agent - error messages

Administration

• Vendor Credentials
• Cloudability Re-validate, archive, or delete credentials
• Cloudability Roles and permissions in Cloudability
• Cloudability Manage user views and dashboards in Cloudability
• Create and Manage Views
• Multi-Currency Service in Cloudability

Setup

• Cloudability Cost Sharing in Cloudability
  • Cloudability Cost Sharing -Telemetry and Consumption Based Allocations
• Cloudability Map and allocate cloud spend overview
  • Cloudability Create and assign tags
  • Cloudability Account groups
  • Allocate costs using business dimensions
  • Cloudability Tag mapping
• Cloudability Tag your cloud spend
  • Cloudability Tag and label mapping
  • Account groups
  • Cloudability Business mapping
    • Business Metrics in Cloudability
  • Setting up Time Zone Preferences
  • Data Reprocess

Working with dashboards and reports

• Reports and Dashboards FAQ
• Cloudability Custom reports
  • Cloudability Map and allocate cloud spend overview
  • Cloudability Understanding how AWS Savings Plans affect your cloud bill
  • Cloudability Analyzing S3 costs
  • Cloudability Analyzing S3 bucket usage and associated costs
  • Cloudability Amortizing Upfront Charges for AWS and Azure Commitments
  • Cloudability Building an AWS cost by tag report
  • Cloudability Identify expensive, untagged resources using Resource ID
  • Cloudability Use transaction types to split variable vs. recurring charges
• Cloudability Export a report
• Cloudability Share and subscribe to reports and alerts
• Sample Reports
• • Cloudability Reserved Instance data
• Apptio BI  available in Cloudability
• Cloudability Customize Cloudability

Insights

• AWS Resource Inventory
• Azure Resource Inventory
• TrueCost Explorer
• Identify tagged and untagged spend with Tag Explorer
• Containers
  • Container Cost Allocation
  • Analyze data for your containers
  • Container Costs allocated by vendor
  • • VM family-based weightings
  • Containers Insight 2.0: Dashboard and Widget Guide
  • Cloudability Tag mapping
• Savings Plans
• Anomaly Detection
• Scorecards dashboard in Cloudability
• Cloud Sustainability Reporting

Optimize

• Rightsizing
  • Cloudability Rightsizing in Cloudability
    • Cloudability Autoscale Action for Rightsizing
    • Rightsizing for AWS EC2
    • Cloudability Rightsizing for AWS EC2 ASG
    • Cloudability Rightsizing for AWS EBS
    • Rightsizing for AWS Lambda
    • Rightsizing for AWS S3
    • Rightsizing for AWS RDS
    • Rightsizing for Azure Compute
    • Rightsizing for Azure Disk
    • Rightsizing for Azure SQL
    • Rightsizing for GCP GCE
    • Rightsizing for GCP GCE MIG
    • Rightsizing for GCP GPD
    • Rightsizing for OCI VMs
    • Configure Your Rightsizing Preferences
    • Snoozing Rightsizing Recommendations
  • Rightsizing Explorer
  • Rightsizing for Kubernetes containers
• Rightsizing ROI
• Cloudability Automation
• Turbonomic
• Commitment-based Discounts
  • Introduction to Commitments in Cloudability
    • What is a Commitment-based discount?
    • Introduction to Commitment Nomenclature
    • Commitment Nomenclature Definitions
    • Using Commitment Recommendations
  • Rightsizing for Kubernetes containers
    • Get recommendations for Savings Plans
    • Get recommendations for buying Reserved Instances and Savings Plans
    • Get recommendations for AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans
    • Get recommendations for Azure Reserved Instances
    • Get recommendations for buying GCP Resource-based Commitments
    • Get recommendations for AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans
  • Commitment Manager

Plan

• Cloudability Budgets and Forecasts
  • Current Month
  • Forecast
  • Budgets

Data reference

• Cloudability Glossary of utilization dimensions and metrics
• Cloudability Glossary of cost dimensions and metrics
• Cloudability Making the most of popular dimensions and metrics within Cloudability
• Cloudability Comparing Data Between Report UI and CSV Exports

Cloudability API

• About the Cloudability API
• Cloudability API reference V3
• • Getting started with Cloudability API V3
  • Account Group Entries
  • Account Groups End Point
  • Anomaly Detection End Point
  • Cloudability Budgets & Forecasting End Points
    • Estimates
    • Budgets and Budget Subscriptions
    • Forecasts
• Business Mappings End Point
  • Cloudability Structure of a Business Mapping
  • Cloudability Business Mapping Expression Language
  • Cloudability Multiple Rules Working Together
  • Cloudability Business Mapping Templates
  • Cloudability Common Dimension Keys
• Cloudability Containers End Points
  • Provisioning
  • Clusters
  • Allocations
  • Usage
  • Labels
  • Counts
  • Cloudability Report API Documentation

• Cost Reporting End Point
• Resource Inventory – Public API End Points
• Cloud Sustainability API
• Cloudability Cost Sharing End Points
  • Cost Sharing Rule Setting End Points
  • Cost Sharing Result Report End Points
  • Cloudability Cost Sharing Allocations
  • Cost Sharing Rules
  • Cost Sharing Telemetry
• Vendor Credentials End Points
  • Cloudability Vendor Credentials End Point (AWS)
  • Cloudability Vendor Credentials End Points (Azure)
  • Cloudability Vendor Credentials End Points (GCP)
  • Cloudability Vendor Credentials End Point (OCI)
  • Cloudability Vendor Credentials End Points (IBM)

• Rightsizing End Points
• Cloudability Rightsizing ROI End Points
• RI Planner End Point
• Cloudability RI Portfolio End Points
  • Reservation Portfolio End Point
  • RI Portfolio Legacy End Point

• Scorecards End Point
• Users End Point
• Utilization Reports End Point
• Views End Point

Technical Support

• Cloudability How to Request a Refetch or Reprocess in Cloudability
• Cloudability Custom Discounts and Enterprise Discount Programs (EDP) in Cloudability
• Cloudability Cloudability Cost and Usage Data Availability in Reporting
• Cloudability Understanding APIs and Cloudability API v3
• Cloudability How to Optimize Cloudability Performance
• Cloudability How to Request a New Or Updated SSO/Certificate
• Cloudability Cloudability Cost and Usage Data Availability in Reporting
• Cloudability How to configure EDP for Cloudability