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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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Allow limiting access to Data Insight OOTB reports.

In multi-tenant deployments, the ability to limit what reports a user/tenant is presented with is key to being able to simplify the user experiance and reduce the effort for limited users or tenants to see only what they need. Allowing them to qui...
3 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Provide scheduling recommendations

Would be great if Cloudability would provide recommendations on what (compute) resources to put on a schedule (e.g. start/stop on the weekends) and if we can also create a Cloudability issue for this that enables us to track the savings.
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Provide new metadata summary widget that displays number of unique values by type for a metadata attribute (e.g. number of ports that are down, up, disabled)

Operationally and for Management reports, it is useful to be able to summarize items of interest, such as the number of ports that are up, down, disabled, etc. Or summarize number of devices by type, operating system, etc.
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Change units in downloaded csv file with recommendations

The units appear in KB and the client requests GB. It is a much more manageable and realistic unit given the current sizes.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

To Exports Targets from Targets section

This would be useful as all other exports that are used for cost board packs for ex co come from Apptio Planning barr the targets as you cannot export them.
7 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
25 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add Additional Rightsizing ROI Metrics to ApptioBI Metrics

Our end users would like their potential rightsizing savings and realized savings metrics added to their base ApptioBI reports. Since Cloudability has the Rightsizing ROI report trackingr realized savings, why can't the realized savings metric als...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Improve the way Azure Disk recommendations are displayed in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing

When looking at Azure Disk recommendations in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing, the THROUGHPUT (MB/S) chart of the Recommendations page is confusing, as the units are actually in Mbps. Please remove the capitalisation so the units are unambiguo...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Future consideration

Able to query the Instana Events in Grafana

Hi team, There has been a need to have Instana Events in Grafana, the same way as we do right now in the Custom Dashboards, basically, be able to query Critical/Warning and present them in a Grafana widget. Thank you.
about 1 month ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Multiple sorts in Apptio BI tables

In Apptio BI, the current table visualization allows sorting by only one column at a time. The requested enhancement is to enable multi-column sorting. For example, in a table with three columns—Account Name, Service Name, and Cost Total—users sho...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration