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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Function (“Popup Message”) to inform users about maintenance work or updates

We recently had the problem that incorrect values/numbers were displayed to users in the reports (CT) due to an upload error. In this case, we unfortunately had no way of informing the users in Apptio that incorrect values currently exist (and tha...
3 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 1 Submitted

Request for Shortened Report Links in Cloudability

The customer has highlighted a challenge with the current structure of Cloudability report links. Unlike Apptio BI, where links are shortened, Cloudability links embed the entire report logic, making them excessively long.
20 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Generic Webhook integration for ticketing

The existing integrations for external incident management systems are a bit thin. Essentially only ServiceNow is available. To make AIOps minimally useful in an environment where operators are using a corporate Incident management system, not AIO...
20 days ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Submitted

Cost Totals at the bottom of Table Widgets

End users would like the option to toggle on cost totals to the bottle of table widgets. It would be very helpful in telling the full story of the data without having to add an additional adget to get the totals.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Revise the Report Screen

Adjusting the Reports section to allow for people to either select their own top 10 or be able to star reports even if they did not create them. Currently the listing is a bit too busy for the average end user.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Ensure stacked bar charts can be limited to show set # of elements on the axis, but no limit on the stacking

Right now we either have the option to show an inaccurate chart limited by the "# of rows" feature, or show ALL rows which makes too much data visually available in the chart. These are not good options and we should be able to just show a stacked...
21 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Resource Inventory Statistical Filtering Needs to Include Views and standard filters into consideration

Currently, applying a view or standard filters to the results of the Statistical Filtering will only display results if an object is within the results applied at the Statistical Filtering. This feature also needs to be able to apply a view or sta...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Filtering Snowflake smart alerts by database username or account

We are trying to create smart alerts to get alerts when queries are taking longer than a specific threshold. While creating the alert we are trying to filter by only specific snowflake usernames/account.
21 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Rich text in text widget

It would enhance the user experience in BI text widgets if hyperlinks and potentially more formatting options could be added. I do have text widgets with URL's right now but people have to select the text to navigate.
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Apptio Views manually managed. Provide the ability to link Views to roles or their Active Directory Groups.

We require Views to be linked to AD roles so that we can manage the cost data privileges that our users hold in the Apptio suite without having to do as we are currently, where for example a user will get a role 'user' or 'admin' and we have to ex...
2 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted