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Version Control Improvements for Business Mappings

Apptio Costing and Planning has a native version control that allows a monthly table to retain schema, layout, etc. from 1 time period to another (between versions). Cloudability's business mapping today requires users to add "Date" and manually s...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Changes for Creating a plan name

Since a plan name changes based upon selections under the Plan Name field, our suggestion is to move the plan name to the be the last field a user fills out prior to selecting the "Create Plan" option. Selections that modify the name include Plan ...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Custom Script Sensor

We request the ability for the Instana agent to natively execute scripts on the host and ingest their output as metrics — without relying on Prometheus exporters or OpenTelemetry endpoints, also with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined i...
11 days ago in Instana / Agent 3 Functionality already exists

Reservations recommendations for DynamoDB

The Commitment Recommendations feature in Cloudability does not include the reservation recommendations for DynamoDB. This is required to ensure that we are able to track the DynamoDB recommendations which provides significant cost savings to our ...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 0 Submitted

Enable TBM Studio UI and API to provide a deep link that with the settings of all of the slicers/filters that can be shared to point a user to a Dashboard on TBM Studio with slicers/filters set to that value filtered for them

If a team is only interested in DATABASE costs for a specific CLOUD ACCOUNT that is shown on a TBM Studio dashboard, then the ADMINS/FinOps should be able via the UI and/or the API get get a deep link (sharing link) to that dashboard URL that has ...
3 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

AWS Credentialing: Role to Role Assumption

Our current AWS CloudFormation template requires customers to grant access to an IAM User principal. IAM Users introduce persistent identity risks, conflict with modern enterprise zero-trust policies, and trigger security compliance flags for pros...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Disable Advanced Feature Check

Enable to a toggle to stop accounts from showing errors on their Advanced Features status on Vendor Credentials. In the event that an account can't/won't be enabled, this would allow both the 'Account Status' banner and the Credentials Page to sho...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Future consideration

Promote "Logs" blueprint on Application Smart Alerts to GA

We would appreciate deploying the "Logs" blueprint on production, but this first needs to be promoted to General Availabilty - it's currently in Preview. Advantages: Fast, low-effort alert creation for error/warning logs Developers can quickly...
5 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Support GCP GKE AutoCluster for IBM FinOps Agent

Google Cloud customers that utilize GKE AutoCluster will find that IBM Apptio Cloudability does not support IBM FinOps Agent monitoring. Enabling this feature would provide users with important feedback about their infrastructure usage.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Group creation for Volumes , when selecting account, need to have regex filter capability added

when you try to create a group of volumes based on accounts, you have to manually select each account rather than use a regex. This is challenging for AT&T as they have over 3k accounts
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted