Today, 15 November 2023, we release support for Azure Resource Inventory reporting in Cloudability.

How does this work?

Cloudability’s Resource Inventory feature enables users to produce an authoritative list of cloud resources that existed and were billed during a specific reporting period. The user has the flexibility to build this list from resources spanning multiple accounts and can choose from different measures (dimensions and metrics) to surface the details relevant to them. This information - available for each cloud resource - unifies billing, utilization, and descriptive meta data to give the user a comprehensive inventory view.

Supported Azure Services

We are supporting three commonly used Azure services with this launch – Compute, Managed Disks and Databases.

Inventory Reporting Measures

Measures are categorized as either general columns or tag columns. Users can include up to 20 columns to an individual report. For each Azure service we support a specific set of measures. Users can filter their inventory reports using any of the measures available within this feature.

Clickable KPIs for Quick Filtering

For each service (eg: Compute, Managed Disks etc.), KPIs will be displayed at the top that provides users with key summary information like Idle Resources, Untagged Resources etc. Users can click and filter the Inventory report based on these KPIs to drill down to the specific report data they’re looking for.

Inventory Reporting Date Windows

Users can view month-to-date inventory data for each service. Upon enabling this feature, resource inventory data will be backfilled to the beginning of the current month. Over time, inventory data will be available on a three-month rolling window. That is, at any point in time, users will be able to access resource inventory data for the current month along with the previous two months.

Exporting Reports

Users have the option to export the reports in CSV format. These exports include all the columns relevant to the particular service (i.e., there is no 20 column limit).

Prerequisites

Azure Resource Inventory reporting feature will have to be enabled for your Cloudability Org. Please reach out to your TAM/CSM/Apptio point of contact to get this done.

Instructions

Note: Data shown in the screenshots below are dummy.

Login to Cloudability and go to Insights > Resource Inventory

Select the service from Services dropdown for which you want to view your resource inventory.

Select the month (up to past 2 months) for which you want to view resource inventory report. 

Click on any of the KPIs (eg: Newly Launched Instances) to filter your reports based on that specific KPI. 

Click toggle button at the top right of report grid to configure Columns and Tags that you want to view in your report. 

Click Filters to apply any filters to your inventory report. 

 Click Export button to export your complete inventory report.

KPI Definitions