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Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
9 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

ITP Asset Import from CT also possible for External Assets

Existing assets can currently only be imported from CT in a automated way, if these are not marked as external Assets. Use case: ITP Existing Assets should be importable to ITP from the most current asset register, also if they are marked as Exter...
about 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Customisable Alerts by Frequency (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)

Allow customers to create and manage cost or usage alerts in Cloudability with flexible scheduling options daily, weekly, or monthly. Daily alerts: Trigger based on thresholds or anomalies detected in a single day’s spend or usage. Weekly alerts: ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Needs more information

Improve Cloudability Usage Reporting

We are now starting to receive a monthly file that contains Dashboard and Report views from Cloudability. However, the files are missing important data that would make them much more useful. Dashboard file: The Dashboard file contains the date/tim...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Under review

Consistency between BM statement names and how they are displayed

I have created Business Mapping with capitalisation e.g. Account-Operations or BT, but when utilising BM in dashboards they all appear formatted by Cloudability to all lower case . This inconsistency is confusing for users and capitalisation is us...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Enable Cloudability Rightsizing to Ingest Memory Usage Directly from Azure Platform Metrics (without DCR/AMA)

Currently, Cloudability’s Azure rightsizing recommendations require memory usage data to be ingested via DCR (Data Collection Rules) and AMA (Azure Monitor Agent) deployments on workloads. While this works, it creates unnecessary deployment overhe...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

In Targetprocess (Apptio), the Number custom field type is limited to a precision of up to 2 decimal places. I want it should have a provision to expand it to 4 decimal places.

It will definitely help my Business users.
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Future consideration

Include Suspend Actions in Container Pods Automation Policy

Currently, the automation policy for container pods includes only the "Move" action in the automation workflow. However, we've received feedback from customers who prefer not to see "Suspend" actions for container pods in the Action Center. To add...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 3 Not under consideration

Allow for BI report to be default login report

When one logs into Cloudability the home screen is Cloudability Dashboard. Would like Preferences to allow User to select a BI Report to be home screen at login.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Alert for IIS Worker Pool/Application Pool Down

Why is it useful? To ensure reduce MTTR of IIS application downtime. Who would benefit from it? SREs and IT teams managing IIS-hosted applications. How should it work? Automatically trigger alerts when an IIS Worker/Application Pool stops or goes ...
9 months ago in Instana 0 Future consideration