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Enable FaaS support in our ICW SaaS

We are trying to create a workflow for our customer Hubbell, where we intend to use the FaaS integration. However, we are given to understand this is not yet supported on SaaS instance of ICW. We request you to enable FaaS integration for our SaaS...
6 months ago in Concert Workflows 1 Future consideration

Increase Dimension count via API data pulls

This request is to expand the limits of the reporting API endpoint to allow more than 15 dimensions. We’ve been hitting a limit on that for some of the workflows we have and was hoping there would be a solution for that.
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 6 Not under consideration

SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...

Sorting by top n results broken down by month or day, should show top n results for each time period

Currently in Apptio BI, if you create a report with a single dimension and single cost metrics, you can sort the data by top results based on the metrics or dimension values. Once you select the "View by" field to any other than "none", you loose ...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Not under consideration

Self serve dashboard creation in AIOps UI

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3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

We’re looking to enhance our alerting to detect interface flaps while avoiding overlap with our existing device availability (ICMP reachability) alerts. Use ICMP-based monitoring to identify intermittent connectivity (flapping) without duplicating the current “device down” availability alerts.

Current ICMP device availability alert configuration - Trigger condition: Maximum Availability = 0% - Clear condition: Minimum Availability ≥ 80% - Polling cadence: 5 consecutive pings every 5 minutes Proposed ICMP strategy (to improve flap detect...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Under review

Native Instance, Version, Status and Uptime Keywords per Sensor

## Problem statement Key instance metadata — **name**, **version**, **status** and **uptime** — is available in Instana only as a snapshot on each individual sensor page. None of these fields are exposed as Dynamic Focus keywords, which means they...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Add an "Apply to All Months" option when creating Budgets, allowing users to populate the same budget value across all months with a single click instead of entering it manually for each month.

Add an "Apply to All Months" option when creating Budgets, allowing users to populate the same budget value across all months with a single click instead of entering it manually for each month. Additionally, introduce a budget history or saved tem...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Put the Account Alias section in GCP for Vendor Credentialing

In AWS, there is a section which populates Account Details in Credentialing section and the same can also be seen later populating in other tools such as Reports, Dashboards and Rightsizing tool. The same option should be available for GCP as well.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Future consideration

Possibility to notify outsiders without adding them to Apptio in Budgets and Forecast section.

In budgets and Forecasts, there is no possibility to add more people for notification who are outside the organization. There should be ability to provide extra email without adding them in the view or Cloudability. There should be possibility to ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted