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IWA event rules fail or stuck in running sometimes due to various reasons, but there is no alerting solution

IWA event rules fail or stuck in running sometimes due to various reasons, but there is no alerting solutionWe use event rules to monitor everything in the IWA env but in case of event rules having issue then there is not build in mechanism to ale...
28 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

ADF pileline plugin jobs job log in IWA is basic but in TIDAL the log is very detailed.

ADF pileline plugin jobs job log in IWA is basic but in TIDAL the log is very detailed.  Application teams running jobs in TIDAL is finding this useful for analysis but its is refferred as a limitation in IWA. Refer the attached job log from ...
28 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Dashboard: show chart values option in Pie charts

We have migrated all our dashboards from Apptio BI to the new dashboards but some features are still missing. To make the Pie charts easier to read, can you propose the options "Show chart value" and "Display by %" for the Pie Chart like in Apptio...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Dashboard: display Net and Percent changes in the same table

In the Table Widget Type, displaying both net and percent changes will be help in some report to provide more context on some cost changes. In addition to sort the line either by Net or by Percent change will be also helpful. For example high perc...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Include anomaly feedback and configured dimensions in Anomaly Detection CSV exports

Enhance Anomaly Detection CSV exports to include the feedback captured against each anomaly, together with the dimensions configured by the organisation for anomaly detection. Feedback: Including anomaly feedback in the export would help central F...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Fiscal Year Reporting

Our organisation’s fiscal year runs from April to March and is configured with a P4 start in the Fiscal Calendar Configuration. However, this setup is not reflected consistently when creating reporting widgets or dashboards, making fiscal‑year rep...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Trigger events from inactive subsystems regardless of the number of subsystems displayed by the active subsystems widget

The client has 63 subsystems that we cannot monitor because the Instana metric only shows the top 20 assets, which means that events are not generated when the subsystem is not among the 20 that Instana captures. The solution is for Instana to all...
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Functionality already exists

Add Payer ID and Payer Name as dimensions available in rightsizing, commitments, and utilization reporting

Please expose Payer ID and Payer Name as first-class dimensions across rightsizing, commitments, and utilization reporting. This would let enterprises with multiple AWS organizations or consolidated billing structures segment and compare recommend...

Allow Admins to “Log In As” (Impersonate) a User

As a Targetprocess administrator, I need the ability to securely log in as (impersonate) another user so I can accurately troubleshoot issues that are difficult or impossible to replicate from my own account. Today, when users report problems (e.g...
5 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Vendor Commitment burn-down tracking. Commitment> Budget> Spend calibration

Here at Sherwin Williams, we have a large number of commitments to spending on cloud products. We've built an ApptioBI dashboard that supports entering start>end dates, total commitment amount, and monthly spend. However, we have not found a wa...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Needs more information