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Microsoft Azure MAAC Discounts are not available in the Cloudability

Currently, we are able to create reports for AWS EDP discounts, but not for Azure MAAC discounts. When we look at the Rate Optimization KPI, our goal is to show the discounts we receive from the CSP using Cloudability or Apptio BI. Although this i...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing Submitted

Bulk Comment

Would like the ability to block comment on similar recommendations - we can then vet the snoozed items checking appropriate narrative has been left to build a profile of recommendations and reasons why they can't be achieved.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Future consideration

Possibility to create (more) interactive Boards at Dynamic Workload Console

To increase acceptance and usability of IBM Workload Scheduler the graphical user interface (Dynamic Workload Console) should be enhanced by the possibility to create (more) interactive boards. At the moment it seems not to be possible to create b...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation Not under consideration

Observability to APIC since INSTANA.

Banco Popular of the Dominican Republic needs to integrate INSTANA with APIC, with the goal of observing: _ Provider Organizations_ Catalogs_ APIs (Requests) The problem is that the integration between both products has been underway for over a mo...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C Future consideration

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
about 2 years ago in Instana / Infrastructure / Sensor Future consideration

Enable the well-known Tilemap chart, Polystat chart, or Honeycomb Tilemap chart in the custom dashboards

It eliminates the need to integrate other tools with this plugin. Additionally, users always ask us for this chart.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities Future consideration

Changes in roles and permissions model: make them more granular for different actions

Specific more narrow cases: Guest users with limited permissions: ID:145662 Permissions to change workflow states: ID:217178 Permissions to prioritize items: ID:62057 Permissions to view, edit fields: ID:145404 -----   Introduce gro...
almost 12 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management Future consideration

Request for Enhancement in Apptio BI Reporting Based on CFP Plan

We would like the ability in Apptio BI to create a calculated metric—similar to what is available in the CFP plan—that combines Year-to-Date (YTD) actuals with forecast data. For example, if we are in June, the YTD cost calculation should include ...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI Not under consideration

Expose upload-health metrics (success/failure/retry/last-success) on the FinOps Agent's Prometheus /metrics endpoint

Container costs are a core part of our overall cloud spend, so we depend on the FinOps Agent uploading reliably to Cloudability. Today the agent's /metrics endpoint (metrics.enabled=true) only exposes generic Go runtime/process metrics (go_, proce...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Kubecost/Advanced Containers Under review

The current SNOWFLAKE plugin allows only STANDARD SQL. We need a feature to run STORED PROCEDURE

When a CALL, COPY TO or EXEC statements are called in Standard SQL, then get error stating AWKSNW004E An error occurred during the submission of the job in Action Info. The message is "Statement not supported." . SNOWFLAKE plugin doesnt not a supp...
2 months ago in Workload Automation Future consideration