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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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Hide Tabs/Reports related to unused CSP

We have several CSP and non-CSP integrations, but not a single one to OCI. Despite that, OCI is "randomly"* present in various forms: - Optimize > Rightsizing - Apptio BI reports - Cloudability reports - Settings > Workload planning preferen...

The ability to Rebrand the Cloudability Environment

It allows companies to leverage established platforms and deliver services without extensive in-house development. It improves customer experience and responsiveness to requests. The ability to permit customization of the web interface to enable b...
5 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
5 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Planned for future release

Integrate Comments from Service Now Rightsizing Recommendation records back to Cloudability

Its very difficult to get engineers to take action on Rightsizing - this was the number 1 key priority in FinOps for many years up until 2024 - its still very important - having engineers and FinOps working together in one tool is key to getting t...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Support for Documentum DFC version 22

We are currently not able to detect potential issue with our Documentum application. At the moment we have visibility only at the application itself but cannot see where the calls are going due to the missing support on the DFC library. Because of...
5 months ago in Instana / Java 2 Not under consideration

Set the default location to the same page when copying a visualisation

When copying a page in Apptio BI, the default page is the next page. To copy to the same page you need to scroll all the way to the bottom of the list to select 'Current Page'. I would like the 'Current Page' to be the first item in the list, maki...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Enabling Traceability on Azure Key Vault

The information provided today by Instana is not enough to determine when a problem occurs at the transaction level in Azure Key Vault, the information regarding performance and configuration metrics could be complemented by reviewing in depth the...
5 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Future consideration

Supported observer for ingesting Forward Networks topology

We have several customers asking for the ability to leverage Forward Networks topology data in Cloud Pak for AIOps. Forward Networks is their main source of truth used for network discovery and network management, and we should be able to incorpor...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Language Expansion

At this time, only English and Japanese are offered as language settings in Apptio. It would be extremely valuable for the Spanish language to be added as well.
5 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Single Unique Identifier Column

Currently plans contain unique identifier information in two fields when on the summary page. UID for Other Expenses are tracked in the "Line Item Code" field while Contracts UID is tracked on the "Source Line Item Code" field. Please provide the ...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration