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Improved Summary/Description on LAD generated Alerts

Currently, the alerts generated by LAD are not user-friendly or easy to interpret without clicking through multiple links and navigating across different pages. As a result, it's not suitable for use in a production environment where incidents are...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Adding sustainability metrics to rightsizing recommendations

There is strong evidence industry wide that a large percentage of engineers are more likely to take action based off carbon emission reduction recommendation than cost. ( largely as engineers may not have a budget responsibility as part of their r...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Customisable colours in Apptio BI Report Visualisations

Currently all Apptio BI report visualisations have fixed default colours. For example for a bar chart the first bar is orange, the second is blue, the third is red etc. There are various situations where I need adjacent visualisations to have cons...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Gateway for Message_Bus v2 should include Transformer (and be fully compatible to nco_g_xml)

The new release of the Message Bus Gateway (v2) is announced as being more reliable and having better performance than the existing nco_g_xml. However, it turns out to not contain all the functionality. Our customer (main German Telco company) is ...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

to add attachment option in email alerting using EWS probe

to enable the email alerting with the attachment. Currently in our environment we are monitoring email alerting with EWS probe in the standard format without any attachment option but we are currently trying to add some attachment in XML format so...
4 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Needs more information

Ability to hide/disable shared costs in container insights page

Every organisation will have its own way to calculate shared container costs, cloudability by default is showing the shared costs which it thinks could be part of shared costs,it is adding confusion to the users, we don't have the ability to hide/...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 2 Functionality already exists

Editable Tables: auto-size the 'Find' pop-up window when searching for values in a drop-down list

When a user uses the 'Find' option in a drop-down selection of an Editable table, the size of the pop-up window is fixed. It would be great if this could be auto-sized based on the number of columns available to give users a better experience. See...
8 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Commitment Recs are not compatible with tag based views

Currently when trying to view commitment recommendations for Azure and also using business mapping based views results in a message saying that tag based views are not supported for commitment recommendations. See attached screenshot. We would lik...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Hiding a project in TBM Studio and keeping it's dataset visible in Apptio BI

Users should be able to hide a TBM Studio project from people with RBI-PowerUser role, making it only visible to people with specific role, while keeping the dataset published to ApptioBI visible. Currently it's difficult to work with the publishe...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Color-coded highlighting based on ticket status

Description: Currently, Instana alert emails display ticket/event details in plain formatting. For better readability, we request support for color-coded highlighting based on ticket status. Request: Open Tickets → Title should be displayed in Red...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 2 Under review