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API Governance

Currently users can create their own API which has the same read/view rights as their user account. This means they can create Service Accounts as well and pull the data from CLDY to another sources and the Central FinOps team cannot control the p...
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Update Required - Greater Access control on API

Access control provided to admins for API is non existent on Apptio. I would like to have a feature where API is enabled for just admins and they can disable apis for all users. Even better will be if admins can disable API for specific users and ...
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Governance 0 Submitted

Add the ability to change default user role for new users or add bulk changes

Given DI does not have an API to safely interact with configurations and settings, the default user role and other management mutations are not possible without invasive and not supported operations. Adding the ability to change users in bulk or e...
about 5 hours ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Larger Time Frame for Rightsizing Recommendations

It would be helpful if users could change the timeframe of rightsizing recommendations. We have a user that has Finxact views and needs to pull 13 months of Cloudability rightsizing recommendations, but the max timeframe is 30 days, but they need ...
about 17 hours ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

System IPL Information after IPL to be updated on Instana

Our teams have a need for Instana to automatically retrieve and update key system‑level information from the HMC after every IPL. This would help ensure that system data remains accurate and up‑to‑date within Instana dashboards without requiring a...
about 20 hours ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Need the ability to delete data from Instana

There are cases where teams configure agents and accidentally feed data into Instana that they do not want in the system. The customer might not want the data for a couple of reasons. First, we have our "fair use policy" and some data might be unw...
about 21 hours ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Submitted

Want to separate out the Delete permissions from the Create and Update permissions for key RBAC roles

In the past, the customer has had many cases where people and teams have accidentally deleted resources such as Applications. They want a VERY small number of people that have the ability to delete objects. Today, when going into the RBAC settings...
about 21 hours ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Need more security granularity in API Tokens

Customer needs more granularity in the API Tokens. Today, when setting up API Tokens, you can restrict the types of access to things like Websites, Application, Infrastructure, and whether or not they are read-only or administrative permissions. T...
about 22 hours ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted

Provide the ability to see which Agent and which custom data is generating the most data. And, the ability to block high volume consumers

With the fair use policy, there is the possibility of a customer exceeding their data usage. The customer wants the ability to prevent that from happening. The challenge is that they don't know who is generating the majority of the data. The audit...
about 22 hours ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 0 Submitted

Want to be able to block Agents that don't have a "tag" with a compliance naming convention

The customer manages their monitoring solultion in a very decoupled way. Each business application is able to setup and deploy their own agents. But, there are naming conventions that are used to ensure that the Agent is supposed to connect. And, ...
about 22 hours ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Submitted