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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Enable vCPU Usage Metrics for Azure in Cloudability

Currently, Cloudability supports vCPU tracking for AWS and GCP, but Azure data lacks this metric. Since vCPU is crucial for Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans, and overall FinOps decision-making. Without this feature, Azure customers lack vis...
4 minutes ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Apptio CT and Datalink should provide capability to export data to CSV

CSV is one of the standard feed format used for data ingress/egress between systems. In general, CSV is considered to be better than XLS because of its capacity to carry more data and to retain the original data formats. In our organization, all o...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Turbonomic Temporary Elevated Access for SSO Users

My engineers that support our Turbonomic SaaS Platform require "Site Administrator" access. Now that we're doing automation in Production, it's increasingly dangerous for "Site Administrator" to be our default level of access in the UI. I would ra...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Ability to report and filter on Commitment type (All Upfront, Partial Upfront, No Upfront)+

We would be able to compare in reports total cost and how the different commitment types impact the savings. Plus be able to filter out all upfront costs from Amortized costs.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Individual WIP Limit per Portfolio

We would like to have the option to define different WIP limit for Kanbans per Portfolio (in our case this concerns the Portfolio Kanban) Currently, this can be set/ changed via Limit Tab in the Kanban View Setup, but it is a per-board fixed board...

Create New Role for Portfolio Admins

We would like to have a new role established that is able to maintain their portfolio(s) just like an admin role, but limited to their assigned portfolio. This role should help with decentralized administration of portfolio(s). This new role is on...
2 days ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Under review

User cards should be exportable 'as is' so we can control what is seen when another user downloads. We can control what is see via lists or on the User screen, but not the export.

Currently we have fields that we are only allowing Admins to see in views and screens, but a user can still see those fields if they export one of the views that have 'User' as a card. This is information that we would like to keep hidden on expor...
2 days ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Submitted

Effective cost basis in Rightsizing explorer

We would like to be able to switch between on-demand and effective cost basis in the Rightsizing Explorer pane. This is possible as part of the various rightsizing panel (e.g. AWS EC2, EC2 ASG, RDS) but not in the consolidated explorer view. This ...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Exclude No action recommendations

When we look at data in the rightsizing panel we often see recommendation with the recommendation 'no action' (in all scenario's whether we are using 10/30 days and on-demand/effective rate. We like to filter out this data from the rightsizing pre...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Delete/nullify result in synthetics

Hello, currently in Instana, we have the synthetics. They run and produce results. We, as users, don't have any possibles interaction regarding those results. We can't validate them, nullify them in case of false positive, delete them, acknowledge...
3 days ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Submitted