What you can do with Cloudability Essentials
Introduction
IBM Cloudability optimizes cloud resources and translates bills and tags into insights to provide real-time clarity and accountability for consumption. Once you have connected to your cloud service vendors to set up data ingestion, you can use the features in Cloudability to explore your resource usage and find savings.
Dashboards
Cloudability Dashboards is a simple, self-service tool that can be used to create fully customizable dashboards, using the data available in Cloudability. Users can choose from a variety of Widgets to visualize the information and adjust the visualization options to tailor the Dashboards to individual needs, ensuring that insights are exposed quickly and in the right context. You can set up one or more dashboards with customizable widgets so you can focus on the range of data and reports you’re interested in. You can also share them with your colleagues.
Reports
Cloudability Reports is self-service tool that allows users to access their Cost and Utilization data to answer ad-hoc questions, schedule Reports to send on a given cadence or export the raw data for a given set of Dimensions, Metrics and Filters. Cloudability includes a selection of preconfigured reports. You can also create custom reports by editing the built-in reports or by creating one from scratch.
Insights
TrueCost Explorer
TrueCost Explorer helps you to understand the structuring of cloud billing files. It offers a visually intuitive way to explore your billing data and answer questions about cost drivers.
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Containers
You can integrate Kubernetes (k8s) or OpenShift (ROSA) container data into Cloudability to gain visibility into the portion of your cloud spend due to container costs, and to assure it’s appropriately allocated. For a holistic view of your Container cost and utilization data together, use the Containers page.
Tag Explorer
With Tag Explorer, we make it easy to see which tags your organization is currently using. For example, if you know your company uses the Team tag to allocate spending but can't remember if the values for the team should be lowercase, camel-case, spaces, abbreviated, etc., Tag Explorer is here to help.
Anomaly Detection
Anomaly detection in Cloudability helps organizations identify unusual or unexpected patterns in cost spending. This provides a comprehensive analysis across all services to detect cost anomalies, enabling users to mitigate sudden billing spikes through timely alerts. Users can monitor anomalies directly within Cloudability or receive notifications via email and Pager Duty.
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Scorecards
Scorecards help you understand how well you are running your cloud by benchmarking your usage relative to your peers. Peers are companies that use cloud resources in a similar manner to you. In addition, Scorecards makes it easy to compare different business units within your organization so that you can identify teams that are leading the charge to adopt cloud-native practices.
Optimize
Commitment Portfolio
You can use the Commitment Portfolio to understand how your existing commitments have performed over time, where risk exists moving forward, and to provide a starting point to begin the conversation around where opportunities remain.
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Commitment Recommendations
You can use Commitment Recommendations to understand where savings opportunities exist based on your current cloud spend and the commitments you already own. Recommendations are generated by a proprietary model that applies your preferences and business constraints.
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Commitment Manager
Cloudability Commitment Manager helps you gain a global view of how committed spend instruments (e.g. Reserved Instances, Savings Plans) can help you optimize your cloud spend.
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Rightsizing
With Rightsizing, you can define the optimal cloud infrastructure best suited for your current and near-term needs in a way that balances risk and cost to minimize waste. Using the Rightsizing dashboards, you can see cloud resource utilization over time. You can then view recommended scenarios for each resource to better inform your cloud rightsizing decisions.
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Rightsizing ROI
Rightsizing ROI lets you track rightsizing recommendations from opportunity to completion and report on the impact of your rightsizing efforts. You can create tickets manually or via automated policies which allow you to track those recommendations, review open and closed opportunities, comment on those opportunities, and report on savings delivered as a result.
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Turbonomic
Turbonomic discovers and monitors your application environment through targets across cloud and Kubernetes environments. It then performs analysis, anticipates risks to performance or efficiency, and recommends actions to avoid problems before they occur. You can connect your Turbonomic instance to Cloudability to view cost and performance optimization actions from Turbonomic.
Plan
Budgets and Forecasting
Budgets and Forecasts helps you understand and predict your cloud spends by - creating forecasts based on historical spending patterns, using forecasts to create budgets and monitor/notify spending relating to budgets.
Organize
Cost Sharing
Sharing costs helps organizations manage spend across showback and chargeback exercises in a more efficient manner. By sharing line items across Cloudability, they are able to save cost.
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Tags and Labels
Tags help you to allocate who owns which resources and the costs that are associated with them. Without tags, it is difficult to know who owns a particular resource and what its purpose may be. Cloudability allocates these tagged items. It can also be used to find things that aren't tagged or can't be tagged. Cloudability support multiple types of Tags and labels across various data sources which can be used for comprehensive cost allocation.
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Account Groups
Categorize accounts into groups for easier reporting, e.g. add multiple accounts into one account group, such as a business unit, for cost allocation. Accounts and Account Groups enable you to edit and group accounts that are accessed with Cloudability.
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Business Mappings
Organize your cloud infrastructure to match your business. Business Mappings are used to create Business Dimensions that categorize cloud spending according to your organization’s taxonomy.
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Views
View in Cloudability is a powerful data filtering tool to organize and control how cloud cost and usage data is presented and shared among Cloudability users for your organization. They act as application-wide filters that help you focus on the data that matters most.
Data Reprocess
If you modify your business strategy, there is a need to adjust Business Mappings, Account Groups, and Tags & Labels in Cloudability with a retrospective refresh of historical data. Data reprocess capability helps you here.