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Rightsizing for ECS workloads

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

Include Disk USED vs Provisioned as a rightsizing recommendation

As a new rightsizing opportunity, for customers who have enhanced CW metrics enabled on their EC2 instances could we look to including a capability to check the actually utilized disk vs what was provisioned, eg: you're only using 10GB of a 1TB pr...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Reports on dashboards are scale to fit and do not have an option for scroll bars

The TargetProcess dashboard currently lacks a horizontal scroll (left-right) functionality, which makes it difficult to view reports or data with large content or multiple columns. This limitation impacts usability, especially when handling with w...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

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...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Show estimated end time of Caluclation

Although it is possible to check the progress status from Calculation Queue, sometimes it does not match the actual progress %. We would like a function to see the scheduled end time.

Permit defining default width of table fields in Ad Hoc Component Configuration

As a TBMA, I would like greater control over defining the column width of fields I add to a table and have the width persist when time options (eg Months Year to Date, Current Month, Year to Date) and/or other fields are added as row/column fields...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Under review

Ability to open select lines on 'external financials' to make small edits (Admin Only)

We use the 'external financials' function heavily in our Planning environment, and we find it is very helpful in maintaining transparency and data quality control, as the lines cannot be edited by the user. We have ~87,000 lines of centrally agree...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Restrict addition of Percentage columns in Apptio -Non-summable

We have an option to restrict row totals in Apptio for any field (By selecting Summable/Non-summable option in the formula ). But the same option is not working fine when the column total is happening. Percentage values cannot be summable, the cal...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Planned for future release

Recommendations for instance scheduling

One way to reduce costs is to allow for instance scheduling to downsize ASGs or power off instances during periods that the system is not being used. Customers would like to be able to view recommendations for workloads that can save money by inve...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Need ability to refresh token within REST 2.0 API call

Need the REST Service 2.0 Beta to request and refresh the authentication 'bearer token' for an API call so that I don't have to manually request the token using a service like Postman.
12 months ago in Apptio 0 Submitted