Cloudability - Overview (Cloud FinOps tool)

Accessing Cloudability

• Login Link: https://app.apptio.com/cloudability

  • Sign in as netid@wisc.edu

  • Initial access is granted by the cloud team and then maintained by the account users via Entra ID Groups.

• For more details on accessing Cloudability, see Cloudability - Accessing Cloudability.

Who Uses Cloudability?

Cloudability is designed for:

• Account Owners / Technical Admins – to track usage, identify cost drivers, and plan budgets.

• Department Finance & Budget Officers – to view spending across multiple cloud accounts

• Researchers & Project Leads – to monitor their project-level costs and avoid over-spending.

• Campus IT departments – to help manage multi-cloud resources across distributed teams.

What You Can Do in Cloudability

Cloudability includes several tools that help users understand and optimize cloud costs.

Dashboards

• Visual summaries of cloud spending, usage trends, and key performance indicators.

• Dashboards can be shared within your department or team.

• Role-specific views (e.g., Executive Summary, Monthly Cost Review, Project Spend Tracking).

Reports

• Flexible reports that allow filtering by cloud vendor, account, project, tags/labels, service, etc. 

• Useful for monthly reconciliation, forecasting, or granular service-level analysis.

• Reports can be scheduled for automatic delivery via email.

Cost Recommendations

Cloudability analyzes your cloud usage and surfaces optimization opportunities such as:

• Rightsizing underutilized compute resources

• Identifying unused storage or snapshots

• Reviewing purchase recommendations (committed use, savings plans, reservations)

  These recommendations help reduce unnecessary spend and improve budget predictability.

Alerts & Notifications

Alerts notify you when costs exceed thresholds or show unusual patterns.

Examples:

• Daily spend spikes

• Costs exceeding project budgets

• Sudden increases in storage or network traffic

• Anomalous spending

Alerts can be configured for an individual account or across multiple accounts within the same billing customer id.

Budgets

Cloudability supports budget tracking for cloud projects

You can:

• Create monthly or annual budgets

• Track spend against budgeted amounts

• Trigger notifications when nearing limits

Next Steps

• Cloudability - Documentation Index– list of all UW Cloudability guides (Dashboards, Reports, Alerts, Budgets, Recommendations, etc.).