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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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Rightsizing ROI- Allow businesses to define custom resolutions when "Wont Do" is selected in Rightsizing ROI tickets.

As a FinOps practitioner at a large company, I need to be able to itemize missed optimization opportunities. Currently, the comment field offered in the Rightsizing ROI is a free form only field, and the field is not exported when you export the r...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Filter Behaviour in Planning Dashboard / Views

Similar to storing a filter in Expenses tabs via the Layout (e.g. Default Layout) storing a default filter in Dashboard view by Admin would be great.  Ideally can also define their own filters storing in their own "layout" that applies to das...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

List View Visual Encoding for Cells

We want to use the visual encoding feature for some lists. But we don't want to colorize the complete row; we only want a cell in a particular color.Example:Instead ofWe would like
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

easier Turbo Instance SSL certificate import - no manual edit of the YAML file

right now customers have to edit the yaml file with VI and a big cert file - loads of mistakes are made - and it's complex. and they need the right number of spaces - like 12 14 16. Vmware Vsphere client has an easy .cer file import process - this...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

provide Folder organization for dashboards

Currently, when you have a large number of dashboards, they are all just listed (alphabetically at least) in a very large drop down listbox. It would be very useful if there was an alternative way to manage all of the dashboards using folders or s...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Allow greater control over "externalTaskTimeoutMin" API setting by action type

Every different action type has dramatically different timeout expectations. For example, a compute vmotion should have a relatively lower timeout (<45 min), whereas a storage vmotion should account for a longer timeout, with some taking severa...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

CostAllocationRuleName to be added in Cloudabilty mapping for Datalink

CostAllocationRuleName field should be added to the Cloudability mapping for the cldy_monthly_azure Datalink connector. This field is included in the Usage Details Amortized and Actual Exports which is scheduled daily.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Create parser for IBM Turbonomic logs when redirected to Google SecOps (Chronicles)

The syslog or audit log from IBM Turbonomic can be further analyzed to ensure proper security measures are in place when the logs are redirected to external SecOps systems such as Google SecOps (Chronicles). However, a parser is required on Google...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Usage by Hour Ability with GCP Data and Off Hours Savings Tracker

Our company is wanting to see potential savings by spinning down resources during off hours but are currently restricted as Cloudability only supports the day of week for time period and not hours for GCP data (GCP billing data has usage_start and...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Can Cloudability fetch data only for specific business units within a shared tenant environment, where cloud subscriptions are used by thousands of business units worldwide?

We are in discussion with a large international company in Norway that has a great emphasis on professionalizing the way they work with FinOps. Our business partner Valoro have a dialogue with them and learned that currently they do not have a pro...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Under review