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Ability to Restrict Budget Visibility and Permissions

I would like to request an enhancement regarding the Budget functionality in Cloudability. Currently, when a budget is created, it is automatically visible to all users within the organization, and any user can modify or delete it. This behavior i...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Planning Planned for future release

Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Azure Database Savings Plans

Publicly announced today, this new commitment type offers up to 35% savings across a range of database services. See: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/finopsblog/announcing-savings-plan-for-databases-flexible-savings-for-modern-evolving-wo...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Allow Napalm integration to take in arguments

At this time, the Napalm integration does not accept optional arguments for it's drivers. This idea will add a field to the block or authentication to allow users to provide these arguments. The specific use case from the case was to be able to us...
about 1 month ago in Concert Workflows Planned for future release

Concert Workflows: Upgrade Telnet integration to allow actions for connecting to CISCO IOS switches

CISCO IOS requires certain actions from Telnet in order to connect and run commands that aren't supported by Concert Workflows, this enhancement is to expand it such to do that, such as prompting keys and resetting states.
about 1 month ago in Concert Workflows Planned for future release

Concert Workflows: Improve Netmiko functionality for dealing with CISCO switches.

CISCO IOS requires certain actions from Telnet in order to connect and run commands that aren't supported by Concert Workflows. Netmiko, runs using Telnet (as well as SSH) and would require enhancements in order to work with a wider selection of C...
about 1 month ago in Concert Workflows Planned for future release

New chart types in Apptio Cost Transparency

A few of my stakeholders have requested different chart types that Apptio does not support so if new charts could be added in a future release, that would provide some variety on dashboards. Executives receive reports from different systems, so it...
10 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing Planned for future release

Request for the addition of a feature in the treemap report that allows the tile size and the amounts displayed on hover (actual amount and variance) to be aligned based on the same fiscal year.

Regarding the treemap report, due to Apptio’s current specifications, it is not possible to align both the tile size and the amounts displayed on hover (actual amount and variance) based on the same fiscal year. Therefore, we would like to request...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio Planned for future release

Enable URL/Hostname to be Supported to JS - Only url/path configuration is supported for now

The current EUM auto‑instrumentation issue is driven by unsupported selector filters specifically hostname‑based filtering. Since Tomcat auto‑instrumentation officially supports only URL/path match expressions, Need to enable to support for RL/Hos...
30 days ago in Instana / Agent Planned for future release

Support Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to enable secure, standardized AI assistant integration with Apptio.

We would like Apptio to support the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable secure and governed integration with AI assistants and LLM-based tools. MCP provides a standardized way for AI systems to discover and interact with enterprise tools and AP...
3 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability Planned for future release

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