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Databricks Catalog & Schema shoudl be configurable.

Customer requests that the catalog and schema should be configurable, since it’s more of a semantic / logical model rather than anything that should really be significant on your end. On our end, we have already changed the table to a view and it ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Needs more information

Assign a default Cost Transparency role to users with multiple roles (Planning and CT roles)

We recently added the Planning module to our instance and are in the process of rolling it out to users. We also have access-restricted menu items on our Cost Transparency (CT) landing page so we have users with a Planning role as well as a CT rol...
4 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Support double -type chars

Customer wants to add the new feature with specification which allows dimension names to be created using only double-byte characters
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Needs more information

We need the plans feature to automatically add new accounts to existing plans

If the plans feature cannot automatically add new accounts, it will be highly inconvenient for customers. Manually adding or recreating a plan for each new account is extremely time-consuming. I recommend that the product team adjust the feature t...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 2 Needs more information

Hostname For Outbound SMTP Connections Should Be Configurable

The current implementation of php SMTP mailer does not set the hostname for the HELO message, which results in Message-IDs ending with 'localhost.localdomain'. This cannot be changed, and may result in the alert mailer not working under some SMTP ...
7 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Is a defect

Adding Single-AZ or Multi-AZ field to the RDS Resource Inventory

Adding the availability zone details in a column of Resource Inventory would give the customer a detailed view on the RDS.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Future consideration

Add CPU count and memory metrics to go along with instance types.

Withe the instance type information, adding a CPU count and total memory should be a easy metric addition that maps to the instance types. CPU count would be very helpful for licensing requirements.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Future consideration

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances: We have several accounts with very high Snapshot Costs, and it will help us target where we can save the most if we can tackle the oldest resources first.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Treat Call and Trace metrics like any other time-series metrics

Regarding Application & Trace Data Retention policy, we claim that “Accurate metrics of applications, services, and endpoints are kept for 31 days.” After looking into this in detail, I have made the following observations: Call metrics with 1...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Create a new Presets button in the Time range Presets options for 'Last month' (or 'Last 28 days', something like this)

Simce Instana can show metrics up to 1 month why isn't there this kinda button in the presets. This can help with showing the 'Monthly overview' of the metrics f.e. in the Custom Dashboard section. Place where I imagine this idea to be developed a...
7 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Planned for future release