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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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Ability to create multiple rightsizing ticket for the same resource

Currently if a customer creates a rightsizing ticket for one issue and act on it. Now after 30 days , customer receives another recommendation for the same resource , there is no option to create a separate ticket as it will still show the previou...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Integration with Grafana Cloud for enhanced rightsizing recommendations

Currently, there is an integration with Datadog that retrieves additional data points and enhances the rightsizing recommendations. It would be great to be able to integrate other open source observability tools such as Grafana Cloud for the same ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Easier Way to Identify Drill Down Reports

We recently had Apptio perform a Technical Health Assessment and we received a list of reports that were recommended to make inactive.  Many of them were drill down reports which are hard to identify from the Apptio UI,  It would be a he...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Cost Transparency - Custom Calendar Request to Match Fiscal Calendar

Currently when we build a query for a fiscal month, ApptioOne will show or apply the calendar month. We would like to see the option of the formula to be the Fiscal month time period and not the calendar month. So February would be  Current D...
12 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Enhance the storage Limit of 64 kb for the alerts.status

After including analytics and runbook automation the amount of storage increase in the alerts.staus. We will change to Watson AIOps, but this is not possible the IBM internal fields use the bigest part of the hard limit of 64kB of the alerts.statu...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Calculated / Dynamic Columns for Rate * Quantity

Similar to Service Demand Planning, it would be very helpful to have the ability to add calculated columns to ITP for services that are rate * quantity. Currently the dollar amount for volume driven services have to be manually calculated in ITP.&...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Filtering resources like Databricks instances and other actions listed on show actions page

Filtering resources like Databricks instances and other actions listed on show actions page. Need the ability to exclude and include using some query expression. Currently, they are seeing many action recommendations for databricks [short lived] a...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 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.
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Release card should be exportable to match the List view showing on the screen

Currently, when one exports a list view that includes the Release card, it exports every field on the card, not just fields on the list view. Other Entities are downloadable from a list 'as is'. Release should also be one. There can be many fields...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Data Import and Export 0 Under review

Better load balancing when on-prem cluster gets overutilized and note in the UI which tells the problem

Our on-premises virtualization clusters are stretched across two data centers. We aim to keep resource utilization in the clusters below 50% so that in the event of a data center failure, there are still enough resources available for all VMs. To ...