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RCG wants Apptio to natively support OU-level AWS tags (like “map_migrated”) instead of relying on workarounds such as Lambda-based replication, to avoid operational complexity and potential data integrity issues.

SITUATION: RCG wants to know why certain OU‑level AWS tags (e.g., “map_migrated”) are not appearing in Apptio despite being enabled in AWS cost allocation. STATUS: Currently, Apptio doesn't support importing OU level tags. SOLUTION: Implement an a...
about 9 hours ago in Cloudability / Other Submitted

Commitment Support for GCP Vertex AI Provisioned Throughput

Vertex AI spend is increasing and there is a need to optimize it. Provisioned Throughput commitments offer a major discount off on-demand: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/provisioned-throughput-on-vertex-ai
about 13 hours ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Submitted

Cross platform disaster recovery support

Currently there is limitation of cross platform CP4AIOPS backup/restore, based on our email conversation with Neil Boyette (IBM) "In our current release for DR, we support Backup & Restore. When you use OCP then for Backup/Restore you can use ...
about 13 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Ability to disable fields

Description Introduce a capability that allows administrators to disable custom fields without deleting them. A disabled field would be fully inactive across the platform, preserving historical data while preventing future use through the UI, view...
about 18 hours ago in Targetprocess / Other Submitted

Set default cost basis for Rightsizing Explorer

Now that there is support for both Effective and On-Demand cost bases in Rightsizing Explorer, I would like to be able to the default cost basis on the Default Cost Metrics Preferences page.
about 18 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Capability to not limit the charts grouping output to max 50 items

Following up on https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ00000AoBsAQAV/charts-grouping-limiting-the-output-to-max-50-items?language=en_US Currently, when trying to view the nodes from one cluster only (so for sure there will be less than 10k of t...
about 23 hours ago in Instana / User Interface Submitted

Ability to Share Individual Dashboard Widgets in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability dashboards do not support sharing individual widgets. Users are required to share the entire dashboard, even when they intend to collaborate on or distribute insights from a single visualization. While reports can be shared...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Future consideration

Make short Incident IDs be actually useful

The incident pages display a short ID like "abcd-efgh" for each incident. This is useful for a human to be able to identify an incident quickly (as opposed to the full UUID like 0000019d-637a-6322-0000-0000000411fc) These short-ids are apparently ...
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Submitted

Need to be able to install and manage Standard Edition via sudo

Today, in order to install and manage Instana Standard Edition, you must login as root. Running commands via sudo does not work properly. Many customers do not allow users to log onto servers as root. All elevated permissions must be accessed via ...
4 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted Submitted

Need RPM install for IDOT OpenTelemetry collector

The customer has standard processes for installation. This includes the ability to bring in packages such as RPM packages into their repositories and scan the installation packages for security vulnerabilities. The IDOT self-extracting tar package...
4 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Submitted