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Adding Account Owners to Rightsizing Dashboard

While we can customize our reports in BI with various dimensions, we are specifically referring to the rightsizing recommendations that help us navigate suggested scenarios. See the attached screenshot. I remember this was discussed before the CLD...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Message Bus Probe basic auth user expanded

The basic authentication user account only allows for a single username and password. This might work well in a very small company, but gets more challenging in a larger organization. What would make this more useful is to allow the basic auth use...
over 5 years ago in AIOps Integrations 2 Future consideration

Enabling support for OpenShift Container is a necessary addition

Apptio currently does not support OpenShift Container, unless it’s ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS), which is a service provided by AWS. Enabling support for OpenShift Container is a necessary addition, and we kindly request that you review...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

ITP / Labor KPI metric to show both the current MEC's actual and YE forecast

In ITP, labor/KPI currently shows only the year ending headcount. We want to be able to see both the current month-end that has actual available and also year-end forecast/target. This basic workforce status view will be meaningful to upper manage...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Track rightsizing cost savings for optimization

As discussed on Slack with Lisa Harnett and the team, NVIDIA's resource optimization recommendations could track the rightsizing resource better by tracking the new resource ID. Currently "if you do a blue/green deployment (and the new resource ID...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Move tabs up when the tab scroll bar appears. Ensure the scroll bar doesn't cover part of the tab text.

why: the new functionality - Horizontal scroll bar for open Studio document tabs​ - is very helpful, but the scroll bar cuts off the bottom part of text. g, p,j,q,y all have their tails removed. Pricing looks like Pricino because the bottom part o...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Future consideration

Rightsizing ROI- Allow businesses to define custom resolutions when "Wont Do" is selected in Rightsizing ROI tickets.

As a FinOps practitioner at a large company, I need to be able to itemize missed optimization opportunities. Currently, the comment field offered in the Rightsizing ROI is a free form only field, and the field is not exported when you export the r...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Usage by Hour Ability with GCP Data and Off Hours Savings Tracker

Our company is wanting to see potential savings by spinning down resources during off hours but are currently restricted as Cloudability only supports the day of week for time period and not hours for GCP data (GCP billing data has usage_start and...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Local User Activity, Password Policy Administration, & API Keys

Last Activity & Login Date: For local users, we'd like to be able to see the Last Used Activity and Last Login Date. Password Complexity Rules and Lifecycle Management: We need a mechanism to enforce our Company's password complexity rules, su...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Allow ability to not actually suspend hosts, but put them in a state where no VMs will be placed on them

The way that our infrastructure is set up does not respond kindly to host suspend/power off actions, but we want to be able to densify our current environment. We'd like the ability to enable "suspend host" such that we can operate efficiently on ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration