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Add "Product Family" field to CDI data feed for enhanced cloud cost reporting and categorization

JPMC requires the Product Family field in CDI to support their highly customized cloud billing reports. This field is critical for their cost allocation and reporting framework as their cloud spend continues to grow dramatically (currently $50M/mo...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Add "Product/Physical Processor" field to CDI data feed to support comprehensive cloud cost analysis

This additional field is required alongside Product Family to complete JPMC's reporting requirements during their migration from MCC to CDI/ADM. The field supports their advanced cloud billing setup described as "the most advanced" implementation.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Product/Capacity Management" field to CDI data feed for complete cost management reporting

Third required field to complete JPMC's CDI migration requirements. This field works in conjunction with Product Family and Product/Physical Processor fields to support their comprehensive cloud cost reporting framework.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Branches in CLDY

Currently the only environment where we can do limited testing and which is quite costly to maintain is Sandbox. In ApptioOne TBM Studio there is possibility to do Brach which is exact copy of the system. In that copy we can do conf changes and ch...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Other 2 Future consideration

Budgets Data Log

Currently we need to raise an incident to IBM in order to see who updated the Budgets and when as we as admins do not have that view. This is time consuming for IBM and for us and sometimes when we do bulk uploads that can lead to data loss and a ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Needs more information

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
3 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Add %ifInErrors, %ifOutErrors, %ifInDiscards, %ifOutDiscards as standard indicators for interfaces

These are industry standard metrics and should have been added years ago. All customers benefit since individual packet error/discard counts don't provide much context into the seriousness of the issue (e.g. 5 errors out of how many packets?) vs i...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Planned for future release

When build finishes it can say finished successfully or with error

Sometimes a build takes a long time, around an hour, and finishes but we do not know if it was successfully. We need to check the table to know if the build failed with error or completed successfully. When the build finishes it should give status...
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 2 Needs more information

Native HA for the Self Hosted Instana Backend

In a self-hosted Instana backend setup, there is no native support for redundancy or high availability (HA), resulting in a single point of failure. This poses a risk to monitoring continuity in the event of a node or service outage. We kindly req...
4 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration

Provide Cloud Financial Planning daily data for current month

The CFP feature allows for reporting and variance analysis on the current month at a daily granularity. I believe that the CFP data source in Apptio BI currently only contains monthly granularity for all months. This means you can't report on say,...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release