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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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Populate Resource Name dimension for Azure

The Resource Name dimension isn't populated for Azure. This is a key field, present in the CUR and should be made available in Cloudability. Without it, it is quite cumbersome to always rely on the Resource Id, which is a very long string. Coupled...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Include AWS Lambda Functions with detailed metadata in Resource Inventory

We would like to request the inclusion of AWS Lambda functions in the Cloudability Resource Inventory, along with relevant metadata such as runtime version, memory size, timeout configuration and associated tags. This would enable improved visibil...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Estimate required Compute Savings Plans Commitment to reach target coverage

It would be very valuable to have a feature in Cloudability that allows us to input a desired AWS Compute Savings Plans coverage percentage, and receive an estimate of the required hourly commitment to achieve that coverage.Use case : We must manu...

Ensure 100 % Trace Visibility Across All Time‑Range Buckets

Problem / Use-case We learned that Instana rolls traces and spans into “time-buckets.” on serverside , for short and long term based traces, for operational technical reasons. Short presets such as Last 5 min or Last 15 min use very fine buckets (...
7 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

BI reports local download feat.

Current process of exporting data/reports via email adds up extra step to the workflow. The tool triggers an email with URL instead of local downloads creating a second hop & adding additional step to get the dataset required for breakdown ana...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

All historical updates must be retained on entities

Historical updates are not retained for each update unless the updated field is entity state The update is not retained unless 5 minute is passed after the update is made, the idea here is to change the behavior to retain all udpates made on the s...
7 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Calculations where data from two clusters are needed

SLT (Service Level Target) calculation: First off, I appreciate IBM helping us on this as this use case is totally outside of the product capability/feature realm. We discussed SevOne Kafka, RNA/RIA options. For this use case, I am totally open fo...
7 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 1 Needs more information

Long data retention for rollup data for daily/monthly/yearly view

Long data retention for rollup data for daily/monthly/yearly view The Service must aggregate and retain KPI data for the purposes of reporting and service: One hour view with 1 min interval, with a data retention window (sliding) of 13 weeks Busy ...
7 days ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Future consideration

Create a Public Page with SevOne SNMP Certification Listing

Customers are interested in seeing the SevOne SNMP Certification Listing as it will help them identify if their devices need to go thru a certification process
7 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Whitelist urls

Would like to be able to whitelist urls ie for instance if a whitehat testing is happening not to get http 500 errors on the whitehat urls.
7 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted