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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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Improvement on Totals

Opened Ticket#TS018957744 and was told the ability to have BI Reports give Total for Jan-Dec (with months showing) wasn't available currently. Not having this feature leads to a download into Excel. Option should be a basic feature.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Planned for future release

We would like to have more display view options when clicking on the Alerts. For example, To be able to choose what options to display the alert field. E.g. paths or ringIDs

It will benefit users who can just double click on the alert and view the more alert details information.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Include Storage Cluster name in Storage Action Details

Today, Turbonomic does not include Storage Cluster information within generated storage actions (such as provision storage). In order for this action to be useful and relevant, we need visibility as to which datastores are in which datastore clust...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to color-code calculated metrics

Customer would like the ability to replicate 'Budget Variance Details' from Plans. Currently, we can use a calculated metric to recreate the Variance, however, customer likes that Plans color codes the variance based on increase/decrease. Ability ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Web/App End User Monitoring: Custom Metrics: Enable Alerts Based on Actual Metric Values, Instead of Only Count of Custom Metrics

In our Website Monitoring using the INEUM SDK, custom metrics are recorded and correctly displayed on default dashboards. However, when configuring smart alerts, we are restricted to using only the count of custom metric events. We cannot create a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert / Real User Monitoring 2 Planned for future release

Workload Planning Integration with Commitment Recommendations

It would be great if you could keep track of workload planning in Cloudability. For instance if we want to make a commitment on aggregate level we need to validate that the underlying resources will remain running, this requires input from the bus...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

possibility to dectivate or change the behavior of imported kubernetes policy

For proper segregation, it is essential to have the ability to disable or modify the values of policies imported from Kubernetes. Our current challenge is that we need to exclude certain actions that the product currently suggests for sidecars. Wi...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Planned for future release

Enhanced Report Export for AWS Commitment Recommendations

We are currently working on AWS commitment recommendations and have encountered a limitation in the report export functionality. Specifically, when exporting reports from Cloudability, the output includes all instances available for reservations w...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Implement ADM for Line Item Filters, Cost Object Permissions and Project Permissions in ITP

It will benefit all customers as the data transfer will be automated without requiring any manual effort
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Planned for future release

Create a new Presets button in the Time range Presets options for 'Last month' (or 'Last 28 days', something like this)

Simce Instana can show metrics up to 1 month why isn't there this kinda button in the presets. This can help with showing the 'Monthly overview' of the metrics f.e. in the Custom Dashboard section. Place where I imagine this idea to be developed a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Planned for future release