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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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Do not allow report users to select more alternative dimensions than are supported by a visual

Problem: Right now if you configure a graph visual such as a stacked bar with a primary dimension and multiple alternate dimensions the alternate dimension menu the user interacts with is a multi-select in which the user can check the boxes beside...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

csv data exports from ApptioBIvisuals with more than one layers should be delivered in a single file rather than a file per layer

Problem:Right now if a data export is generated for a graph visual with multiple layers configured, the export email will contain one file link per layer. For example, the S3 Storage Cost by Tier Graph in the AWS Services Overview report has seven...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Parking policies - Needs the ability to show the selected Accounts and Resource Groups when going into Edit

When a Parking policy has been created and a user wants to go in and edit the policy, or even check what has been selected, if there are any significant numbers of accounts or resource groups then it is a laborious task to have to search through t...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Add support for Azure Reservation for Services other than Virtual Machines e.g. Azure SQL and AWS Reserved Instances for AWS RDS

Turbonomic is currently supporting Azure Virtual Machine Reservations and AWS EC2 Reserved Instances ensuring that the existing reservation portfolio is optimally utilized, but Azure is offering reservation for a lot of service also supported by T...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

More details about unmonitored servers or components

Ability to automatically identify candidate servers for monitoring because they interact with the monitored applications or servers. This will uncover any relationships with critical application elements that may have been overlooked in current ob...
14 days ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Submitted

Proposal: Introduce Yellow Checkmark for Partial Azure Credential Permissions

Team, From what I understand about Azure credential behavior today: 1) For basic credentials, a green tick appears when the minimum permissions to pull billing data are present. However, key permissions like billing:EnrollmentReader (alghough not ...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Windows cluster monitoring

Need support for windows cluster related metrics, and for Cluster Shared Volumes
15 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Instana to support calls to ODBC driver from GO code

In our shop we have Db2 on z/OS, and we have many direct access to Db2z from distributed world via DDF from ODBC driver (not JDBC), which is called from an application written in GO. We need Instana to support this path as currently it does not su...
15 days ago in Instana / Go 0 Submitted

Exclude previous day in day granularity reporting (Relevant to: Cldy, Apptio BI, and CFP)

Cloud Service Provider billing data is rarely dependable unless it is 24 to 36 hours old. This is because lots of processing happens within 24-36 hours in the past and the amounts for the previous day are consistently incorrect. Customers who I ha...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Roadmaps enhancements and flexibility

Roadmaps suggestions; group items according to hierarchy. Hover information on Roadmap cards.