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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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View by Week

Apptio BI reports offers a view by daily, monthly, quarterly and half-yearly at present. It would be useful to have a "View by Week" grouping so that users can compare "Week on Week" costs. It would also be useful to customise the first day of the...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add cluster awareness for Aurora to Apptio BI Utilization Data

Customer likes the ability to show CPU utilization for RDS instances, but see the fact that the reporting is unable to provide cluster name, instances included in cluster, etc. as context to the instance level CPU utilization.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add integration support for Broadcom APM agents to collect extended system stats such as Memory or GPU

Customer standardizes on Broadcom APM (Broadcom DX?) and deploys agents to all instances as a standard. The FinOps team would like to base right sizing recommendations on attributes aside from CPU and their platform team will not allow install of ...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Include license costs in the rightsizing opportunity calculation

It has come to our attention that the savings opportunity shown in the cloudability rightsizing are not inclusive of licensing costs, as a result saving potential is being understated for resources that would also see a license save as a result of...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

To have the possibility to download a business metric into an excel file

Some departments are not familiar with reading a .json file and having an export into excel would be much easier for them
2 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Color code the folders to find things easier

It would be nice if we could color code the folders to find things easier. This will make the search in the navigation pane easier.
2 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Third level hierarchy of the left navigation is very limiting

Third level hierarchy of the left navigation is very limiting. Need more nested levels and a way to manage and move items quickly
2 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Need the ability to apply complex filtering and variable filtering to Views.

Need the ability to apply complex filtering and variable filtering to Views. (e.g. establishing variable condition rather than text only. Or applying conditional filtering based on selection of a prior context filter)
2 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Display of age of alerts in DI in the alerts details widget

In the alerts details widget, currently, we have FirstTime and LastTime for the alerts. If we can display the age of the alerts [ currenttime - firsttime ] in words [ a day ago, a week ago, etc.
2 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Submitted

Give ability for user to see all reports they have access to

There is no way to see a complete list of the reports that you have access to in Apptio BI. This is because the "All" option doesn't actually show all reports as one would naturally assume from the name. It only shows reports created by the user o...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted