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Return missing details of graphical view in workload designer

In version 9.4 of the Workload Scheduler we used to be able to see the earliest start time and conditional dependency criteria on the graphical view. This is missing in version 10.2.2 (we recently upgraded) and we miss it. As long as I'm asking, i...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Enhanced Linked Report Drilling: Enable Cross-Dataset Navigation via Dimension Mapping

Currently, Apptio Cloudability's linked report drill-down functionality is limited to reports sharing the same source dataset. This proposal aims to extend this capability by introducing a "Dimension Mapping" function, allowing users to seamlessly...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

COPA OA: Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. 

Dashboard templates Dashboard templates for common use cases for a specific technologies will be useful for better overview. The standard out-of-box dashboards show a dump of all metrics. Curated dashboard templates for use cases that can be activ...
9 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 / User Interface 0 Future consideration

COPA OA: Flexible dashboarding for metric correlation needed

Need ability to study correlated metrics. For example, how is the CPU and disk usage behaving with user load? How is garbage collection affecting response times? Comparison of different metrics on the fly is available in ITCAM that is not availabl...
9 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 / User Interface 0 Future consideration

COPA OA: Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.

Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.Need the capability to generate thread dumps to view the current thread activity. This is useful for long running wor...
9 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 1 Needs more information

Support VMware vROPS as (direct) Topology Observer

Large VMWare customers typically use vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) to federate their VMWare / vCentre deployments. One of the functions vROPS provides is centralised inventory management. Having an AIOps Topology Observer capability to retri...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

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: ...
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...
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...
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...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration