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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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Rightsizing for ECS workloads

Rightsizing support for ECS.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Include Cost (Amortized) in Anomaly Detection

Currently, as Anomaly is based on Cost (Actual). This has limitations incase of a customer using reservations. In such cases Cost (Actual) is able to work only on "On-Demand Cost" which is only pricing model being captured by Cost (Actual) - and w...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Manually setting sampling rate to SevOne NMS.

When monitoring Sampled NetFlow, It needs to configure the sampling rate on the network device to send it to SevOne.Without this configuration, SevOne will not recognize the sampling rate, and the traffic volume displayed on the Flow widget will b...
4 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

design a login page that supports both local login and multiple SSO login options

Request ideas or suggestions for designing a login page that supports both local login and multiple SSO login options. The goal is to offer a seamless user experience, allowing users to choose from various SSO providers along with the local login ...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Ability to create e-mail alerts using filters instead of views

Have the ability to set e-mail alerts based off of filters instead of views (see screenshot) Example 1: I only want to receive e-mail alerts for accounts 1 and 2. Instead of selecting a view, I would be able to set a filter to where the e-mail ale...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Adding Single-AZ or Multi-AZ field to the RDS Resource Inventory

Adding the availability zone details in a column of Resource Inventory would give the customer a detailed view on the RDS.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Future consideration

Add CPU count and memory metrics to go along with instance types.

Withe the instance type information, adding a CPU count and total memory should be a easy metric addition that maps to the instance types. CPU count would be very helpful for licensing requirements.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Future consideration

Exclude idle time in IOPS and Throughput metrics

Consider excluding idle time when calculating IOPS and Throughput metrics used for recommendations or add it as an optional way to interpret and view recommendations. The current formula used is the sum of read and write operations dived by time p...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Treat Call and Trace metrics like any other time-series metrics

Regarding Application & Trace Data Retention policy, we claim that “Accurate metrics of applications, services, and endpoints are kept for 31 days.” After looking into this in detail, I have made the following observations: Call metrics with 1...
4 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Credentialing GCP Detailed Billing in Cldy using GCS Bucket which is present in different project

Hey, The customer, JLR/Jaguar Landrover, is looking for the option to credential GCP Detailed Billing in Cloudability using GCS Buckets, which is present in another project. Is this something that can be considered?
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration