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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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Able for user to directly (Right Click) off Incident GUI to launch external tickets in system (e.g. BMC Helix ITSM) this part of core product not custom customer configuration

As a end user to go down multiple layers to triggers system outside tickets and not be able to view at the Incident GUI view the tickets is complex and time consuming making it inefficient and hard to use. Currently the implementation of having an...
4 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create tickets for RI Recommendations (Similar to rightsizing) - SNOW Integration

Ability to create tickets for RI Recommendations (Similar to rightsizing) - SNOW Integration
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Not under consideration

Accommodate multi-tier MSP model - Distributor-Partner-End Customer

Ingram Micro is looking for the capability to manage public cloud costs at their Org level (root), partner level (intermediate), and end customer level. Right now they're offering Cloudchekr free of charge to their partners for AWS, but charging t...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Not under consideration

Additional recommendations for GCP and AWS

GCP: Buckets / CloudSQL / BigQuery AWS: Unassociated Elastic IP / LB / PaaS services / Lambda Some recommendations do not take into account all the characteristics of the instance: e.g. T4g (ARM) on AWS without taking into account the specific OS.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Not under consideration

Allow Views defined within Widgets take priority over Page View

Allow the widget be configured with a hard view. This will allow to create multiple widgets within a page based on view filtering
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Not under consideration

Smart alerts - ability to select any created application

Hi, It would be useful to allow selecting any created application perspective in smart alerts. Currently you can only select application perspectives which had calls (excluding synthetic calls) in last 24h. This is very inpractical if you want to ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Real time cpu, ASP and disk utilization should be captured in event description.

Real time cpu, ASP and disk utilization should be captured in event description. For example threshold is configured for generate the event if utilization is more than 80% then what was exact utilization that time (like 81%, 83% or 87% etc)
about 2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Not under consideration

MSP are manually processing AWS MAP credits, and they need an automated way of achieving this.

AWS offers an extremly complex way of receiving credits back for workloads that are being migrated to Aws from onprem. This complexity is by design to make sure for most part that credits are never realized. This requires enormous tagging of workl...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Not under consideration

Ability to remove final plans from the plan drop down and only have these available in the compare and summary compare area

Currently all the plans are available in the drop down but you can only edit new and open plans. it would be good if you could hide the final plans but have them available in the expense tab as a drop down and the summary/dashboard report as a com...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Not under consideration

Get an email when an alert has been changed

We have a few teams working in instana and it would be helpful if we could get an email if an alert is changed.
2 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration