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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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Include AWS Lambda Functions with detailed metadata in Resource Inventory

We would like to request the inclusion of AWS Lambda functions in the Cloudability Resource Inventory, along with relevant metadata such as runtime version, memory size, timeout configuration and associated tags. This would enable improved visibil...
about 2 hours ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Estimate required Compute Savings Plans Commitment to reach target coverage

It would be very valuable to have a feature in Cloudability that allows us to input a desired AWS Compute Savings Plans coverage percentage, and receive an estimate of the required hourly commitment to achieve that coverage.Use case : We must manu...
about 4 hours ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
about 5 hours ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

BI reports local download feat.

Current process of exporting data/reports via email adds up extra step to the workflow. The tool triggers an email with URL instead of local downloads creating a second hop & adding additional step to get the dataset required for breakdown ana...
about 5 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

All historical updates must be retained on entities

Historical updates are not retained for each update unless the updated field is entity state The update is not retained unless 5 minute is passed after the update is made, the idea here is to change the behavior to retain all udpates made on the s...
about 16 hours ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Calculations where data from two clusters are needed

SLT (Service Level Target) calculation: First off, I appreciate IBM helping us on this as this use case is totally outside of the product capability/feature realm. We discussed SevOne Kafka, RNA/RIA options. For this use case, I am totally open fo...
about 17 hours ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Submitted

Long data retention for rollup data for daily/monthly/yearly view

Long data retention for rollup data for daily/monthly/yearly view The Service must aggregate and retain KPI data for the purposes of reporting and service: One hour view with 1 min interval, with a data retention window (sliding) of 13 weeks Busy ...
about 17 hours ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Submitted

Whitelist urls

Would like to be able to whitelist urls ie for instance if a whitehat testing is happening not to get http 500 errors on the whitehat urls.
about 20 hours ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Turbonomic SSO users authorized by groups assigned at Turbonomic combined with SSO group

Actions can only be allowed to be executed by the team members resonsible for certain cloud accounts instead of all accounts in GCP, AWS and Azure. The OKTA SSO group is created at enterprise level for read only, or read/write, but not at cloud ac...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Please add Nutanix API v4 so Turbonomic be able to read the OS and Software from VMs

Clients are moving fast to Acropolis/Nutanix. Turbonomic is able to read the VMs, but cannot retrieve the OS nor the Software. We opened ticket TS019101805 where we received the following reply: "I spoke with engineering about the "Unknown" OS for...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Submitted