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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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Able to Create alerts/Incidents from Syslogs ingested for log anomaly detection

Consider exploring the possibility of applying incident policies or rules to create incidents/alerts once syslogs are ingested for log anomaly detection, similar to how we manage alerts. This could expand the functionality beyond just log anomaly ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Avoid duplicating work to submit Ideas for items already told to TAM

Even though we meet with and have an established relationship with IBM for multiple products with TAM. Share our current roadmap and needs many times. But are instead told, must open idea on website. And IBM is telling us to open an idea on the IB...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

Monitor multiple MSSQL servers on a single host

Currently it is not possible to monitor more than one database instance on a server, it is only possible to monitor one. This is a restriction that makes it impossible to build a complete view of a service, losing end-to-end observability.
10 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Custom Dashboard editing permission based on groups

Permission for team members based on user groups for editing custom dashboards. Business Use CaseCustomer have teams working 24x7 and in case if an on-shift person wants to edit the dashboards they need to explicitly grant permission to edit.They ...
over 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 3

Option to Export as a .CSV out of TBM Studio

As an admin, I export data directly out of TBM Studio for our users to review and upload themselves into IT Planning. As the default file type when exporting out of TBM Studio is .xslx and the required file type to import into IT Planning is .csv,...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Rightsizing ROI with a group of resources

in our finops governance, we assign optimization actions to our engineering teams. As a Finops lead, I would like to be able to assign a set of recommendations for an application (through the TAG value), not per resource type (EC2, RDS, EBS etc). ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Keep Apptio Gov Help Up To Date with Commercial

The gov version of Apptio Help seems to not get updated as often as Commercial. According to gov help on 2/10/25 (https://help-gov.apptio.com/cloudability/whats-new.htm), the last update to Cloudability was on September 30, 2024.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Help & Training 1 Planned for future release

Ability to Star Reports I Don't Own

I would like to be able to star an out of the box report without having to make a copy of it. This would be helpful in managing the list of reports and allow me to go to the Starred reports for the ones that I'm interested in.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Ability to search/filter in a table widget on Dashboard

Currently if you have a long list of items in a table widget, there is no way to search or filter so you have to scroll through the entire list to find what you are looking for. Could we have the same ability to filter a table, as we do in Apptio ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted

Opsgenie - possability of integrating the anomaly alerts with opsgenie

As mentioned in the title, it would be of interest to see the possibility of creating a integration so anomaly alerts can be sent to opsgenie.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Needs more information