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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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Cloudability Ownership/Users of Reports and Dashboards

It'd be helpful to see a "creation date" and and "created by" value for each dashboard, and report. As an Admin to also have access to see reports that aren't shared with Organization. When personnel leave company or role, can't remove/reassign fr...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
12 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
12 days ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Additional field recognized as numeric needed for contract variance analysis.

We are maturing our planning capabilities and have come to the conclusion that a 3% price increase on our contracts is no longer sufficient across the board. In order to forecast more accurately, we are comparing a vendor's current contract price ...
13 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Change default to "off" under Preferences for Cloud Spend Summary Emails

Users (Executives) receive "all in" emails and causes more questions, since filters aren't setup properly to exclude certain Sellers. There isn't much control over the User onboarding process from an administrative standpoint. The only way to edit...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Adding Account Owners to Rightsizing Dashboard

While we can customize our reports in BI with various dimensions, we are specifically referring to the rightsizing recommendations that help us navigate suggested scenarios. See the attached screenshot. I remember this was discussed before the CLD...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Expand Frontdoor API to include CREATE, UPDATE, and DELETE (CRUD) of custom roles

As a Managed Service Provider who manages the Apptio implementation on behalf of the customer organization. The customer organization has many agencies underneath. Each agency may or may not have same permissions to view and use different componen...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Enabling support for OpenShift Container is a necessary addition

Apptio currently does not support OpenShift Container, unless it’s ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS), which is a service provided by AWS. Enabling support for OpenShift Container is a necessary addition, and we kindly request that you review...
14 days ago in Apptio / Other 0 Submitted

Waterfall Chart in Cost Transparency

This enhancement request would allow us to view the full page of the waterfall chart in the Cost Transparency Production environment and hide the data entry table that is only needed in TBM Studio Development environment. However, we have faced so...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

ITP / Labor KPI metric to show both the current MEC's actual and YE forecast

In ITP, labor/KPI currently shows only the year ending headcount. We want to be able to see both the current month-end that has actual available and also year-end forecast/target. This basic workforce status view will be meaningful to upper manage...
14 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted