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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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Integrate Cloudability Governance Feature with GitLab

Description: The Cloudability Governance feature is currently limited to integration with GitHub upon its release. Details: Our enterprise is interested in the Cloudability Governance feature and requires integration with GitLab. Without this capa...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Governance 1 Planned for future release

Alert Suppession with multiple NOT conditions is not working as expected

Alert Suppression with multiple NOT conditions in INSTANA is not functioning as expected. When configuring suppression rules that include more than one NOT condition (e.g., NOT tag1=value1 AND NOT tag2=value2), alerts are still being triggered for...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Adding additional tab to the services/kubernetes namespace dashboard with custom information

"We have a Service Catalog that includes the service name, service description, and contact information (name, phone, email, etc.) of the programmer or team responsible for support. Similarly, we also have a Namespace Catalog with comparable infor...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Provide Exclude option for Apache Tracing

We want to adopt Web EUM Auto Instrumentation through Apache tracing module.We check the following url how to match the request.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=websites-automatic-instrumentation#match-expressions-ex...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Can the Jira Integration be updated to allow for a Rightsizing recommendation to be tied to an existing Jira?

A few of our engineering groups have asked if the Jira integration with Cloudability could be updated to allow them to tie a Rightsizing recommendation to an existing Jira ticket or if multiple recommendations could be tied to one Jira ticket? I t...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Not under consideration

Allow custom metric reporting without a primary dimension defined

Problem: I have several custom metrics defined in my Cost Transparency data set. I would like to be able to show both grand values and trended breakdowns per month for a selected time frame. Right now when I try to build that summary I get the err...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Under review

Commitment Recommendations list should include account names

When I look at reservation recommendation list, I see only instance types. I dont know on which accounts these instances work and whom I should follow up in regards to reservations. Please add Account ID or Account names in the recommendation list.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Bulk unassign functionality for User/Team Projects

We have over 2000 projects and if we want to reset a user's project assignments, then we manually have to unassign them from each project. There is a bulk assign option, but no bulk unassign option. As a workaround, I currently use the user Id in ...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience / User Management 0 Under review

TSRM Gateway to check whether a ticket exists in Maximo before retrying the create process

When the gateway ticket creation attempt fails due to a timeout in the web server, the ticket is sometimes created on the Maximo side. When the gateway retries the failed operation and succeeds, a duplicate ticket is created for the ExternalId (Se...
about 2 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Exposing Cloudability Cost Details to Backstage using a Plugin.

We want to expose the cloud cost details for applications deployed using backstage or any application deployed in AWS within the DevX portal (using the plug in). https://backstage.apptio.com/
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Needs more information