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Privacy enhancement to the Labor Tab.

Would it be possible to lock or hide the Existing / Planned Employee subtab under Labor tab to some users? The goal is to enable more granular access control—so that user permissions could be configured to allow access to either the Existing tab, ...
23 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Submitted

Correctly Calculate Parking Realized Savings

In the Executed Actions widget, the savings realized by suspend actions (as a consequence of a parking schedule) are incorrectly calculated. We downloaded the exported file and validated multiple cases. In the first place, it calculates the saving...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 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...
2 months ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Under review

Cloudability MCP (Model Context Protocol)

We are currently building a FinOps Assistant GENAI, we have already other sources to enhance our FinOps assistant e.g AWS Billing and Cost Management official MCP, JIRA official MCP, DataDog official MCP and so on. What we are missing now is the C...
9 days ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Impact out of the box Netcool Impact MWM check completion flag needed

Suppressed alerts are falsely forwarded to upstream systems like event-automation as we cant explicitly filter out 'MWM Processed' alerts.
9 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Adjustable lookback period for rightsizing recommendations is required.

Currently only 2 options for lookback period are available: 1. 10 day 2. 30 day I want lookback period to be adjustable up to 90 days, as 90 days sufficiently account for the seasonality in workload utilisation.
9 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Colour (color) control in chart-type widgets

We are finding that some users are becoming confused with the colours in chart-type widgets in Cloudability Dashboards, particularly when tracking differing timelines. I have attached an example where for a given timeline, AWS ECS was the primary ...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Add dimensions to Apptio BI to mirror info from Rightsizing

Add more dimensions regarding Rightsizing data source in Apptio BI. Currently we have situations where in Apptio BI reporting we have only current and recommended instance type but that is not what is being recommended to be changed: for example, ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Add COIN reporting as a native capability

Cloudability has all of the data to enable COIN reporting natively in the dashboarding and reporting, yet the only way to achieve this today is to take the cost and rightsizing data out of Cloudability to an external tool to join and present it. C...