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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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Want to be able to execute Automations from a specific Agent

Within the Action Catalog for executing automations, the target server can be selected if the Automation is run manually by a person. The person sees a list of available Agents and selects one. But, when executing the Actions in an automated way v...
5 months ago in Instana / Automation 0 Functionality already exists

Utilization data for Azure and GCP via Reports in Appti BI.

Customer wants Utilization data for Azure and GCP via Reports in Apptio BI. As of now we were supporting a few products of AWS but not AZURE and GCP.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Functionality already exists

Make it possible to report 30-day savings amounts for each ROI ticket.

Right now the savings amount that is reported per ticket is either 10-day or 30-day and there is no way to change this. As a result, I have a total savings number with a mix of both time periods, making it impossible to know how much is being save...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 3 Functionality already exists

Add Date Comparison for Calculated Metrics

I currently have some visualizations that use a calculated metric to show our average 30-day cost for popular cloud services like compute, storage, networking, etc. The formula is Cost (Amortized)(last month)÷30. To make this more useful, I'd like...
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 3 Functionality already exists

how to generate all AWS stale snapshots report using BI/ CDLY

If I have created 100 snapshots from EBS volumes in an account and later deleted the associated EBS volumes, leaving the snapshots(stale snapshots) alone, I would like to list all 100 snapshots that are not associated with EBS volumes in a report ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Functionality already exists

Methods unixssh : Using passphrase

Have the option of using an RSA key with a passphrase (for SSH) when using the unixssh method. At present, we are obliged to use keys without passphrases for the unixssh method, which poses security problems.
6 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Functionality already exists

Increase the granularity of DynamoDB metrics to support hourly basis analysis

The idea is to have the metrics for a few products persistent on an hourly basis so the users can do a deeper analysis of their usage. Today, the customer is using a tool from AWS Marketplace called CUDOS to do that. https://aws.amazon.com/pt/blog...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 1 Functionality already exists

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard, From the attached screenshot, you can observe it does not have metric for memory and cpu usage of a deployment, service, daemonset. Please add it to all avai...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Allow for re-calculation of indicator of seconds/minutes/time

If creating a report based on indicators that have values in seconds, such as system uptime, DI should provide me the choice to change what the display shows. If the indicator normally displays as seconds, allow me to select days instead and show ...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 3 Functionality already exists

Hourly breakdown of usage data for AWS and Azure

Useful to get usage trends of our instances in order to track shutdown in nbh, trends on hourly usage, etc.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Functionality already exists