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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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Anomaly Detection - Cost Metric Configuration

Current State: Cloudability’s anomaly detection feature currently uses Cost (Total) as the only basis for identifying anomalies in cloud spend. Problem: Cost (Total) does not reflect the actual financial impact to the business because it excludes ...
12 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Adding recomendations for SQL Instances and Memorystore for GCP

Helps reduce cost for SQL and Redis usage in GCP by identifying overprovisioned and stale resources.
13 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Device Manager Alerting exclude option

By default all alert types are shown. Sometimes you only want to exclude certain types such as Debug. Instead the only way is to have to select every available option. NMS provides a better way of doing this using a tick option - by default everyt...
13 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Report Linking "excludes" operator

DI Report Linking only provides the "includes" operator. Require the "excludes" option. We have reports that need to be excluded for specific cases but enabled for all.
13 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Implement namespace exclusion functionality for new Kubernetes sensor (k8sensor)

Problem: Current IBM Instana Kubernetes sensor lacks namespace exclusion functionality, causing uncontrolled data collection and billing increases from system/excluded namespaces. Business Impact: Organizations cannot control monitoring scope, lea...
13 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration

Currently Maps can be found by searching by name, cannot search for devices and then see/click on the map the device is on.

Being able to search for the device and see the related Map it's on would save time, rather than the limitation of only a 'map name' search.
18 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Future consideration

Additional sanitization for Webhooks

Certain SevOne json payloads are affecting service now webhooks and can't be parsed properly if they contain special characters (such as : ). Request to further sanitize our webhook payloads in a more compatable format that service now can accept.
19 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Line item filter that filters both ways - check for valid combinations

I have a situation where planners need to plan investments in Planning tool. I have created a custom dimension for investment and line item filter to filter the investment based on cost center. If the planner starts with entering a cost center, th...
19 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

HA for data insight.

The HA solution would allow for Data insight to be available via a secondary server installation during upgrades, updates and the rare failure. The HA solution would allow for system administrator to change primary node.
20 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Show who to ask for access when report/dashboard not available

When someone provides a link to a dashboard or report that is not shared with the user, they get a message "Sorry you do not have access to this dashboard" and a link to the list of dashboards available to them.It would be helpful to know who to a...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration