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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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Support for UPN Configuration for SSO Login

Customer want to have the Apptio side utilize UPN instead of email address. This is because Customer have a subset of users that log in with a UPN that doesn't match their primary email address, and they cannot log into cloudability.
24 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

More of a Bug than an idea. Currently unutilized part of a Savings plan shows Reservations class as "Standard" which is a class suitable for RIs.

For a customer Reservation Class is showing as "Standard" despite the Lease Type being Savings Plan. This happens specifically for Transaction Type "Recurring Charge". Implecation being that the unused part of a Savings Plan is being tagged under ...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add GPU Utilization metrics in Cloudability

We have a subscription owner whose application uses only N-type VMs (GPU-Optimized VMs). They mentioned that the relevant metric for them is GPU utilization. However, GPU utilization is not currently available as a metric in Cloudability. In the f...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

AI-Powered Chatbot for Cloudability Assistance

One of my customers - DLA Piper, proposed adding an AI-powered chatbot (similar to ChatGPT) to assist users with Cloudability-related queries and tasks. This chatbot would provide real-time, step-by-step guidance, improving user experience and red...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Other 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...
3 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Add sizing to Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, please consider adding sizing capabilities to Instana dashboards. When instana is running it has all the information to estimate current resource use and calculate how much storage required for current load, when critical storage ...
25 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Ability to capture .Net based performance metrics

Ability to capture .Net based performance metrics
25 days ago in Instana / .NET 0 Submitted

Enhance Driver To Support Devices

To enhance NCM drivers to support below devices 1. HUAWEI CE6851-48S6Q-HI2. NetEngine 8000 M144. NetEngine 8000 M85. ATN 950D
26 days ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Submitted

Add tracing support for Borland Delphi

Ability to trace Borland Delphi client calls to SQL Server, perhaps an intermediate component that discovers transactions without the need to modify the application.
26 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Need API to gain secret from instance so it does not need to be stored in metadata. Related to OAuth2

We would like the ability to dynamically get a client secret for an OAuth2 client using an API call. We have many tools and processes that rely on the Turbo API and this would allow us to more easily enable automation and avoid the need to manage ...
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted