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Provide a warning when internal certificates are about to expire

Rather than being surprised when internal certificates have expired when on the CLI (which is rare and usually only when doing upgrades), gives us a heads up in the UI.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Planned for future release

Only admins should be able to share dashboard with org

We want to only allow admins to share a dashboard with the organisation. There should be a setting to enforce this. This is to ensure we have a gatekeeper for company-wide cost views and visualisations.
4 months ago in Cloudability 0 Future consideration

One time assignment of default dashboard and view for users based on roles

We want to, as the FinOps team, to be able to assign default dashboard and view for users depending on their roles.
4 months ago in Cloudability 0 Future consideration

Ability to add CR (custom resource) with custom settings.

Reduce Manual actvity during Upgrade / DR / config updates
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Future consideration

Ability to open select lines on 'external financials' to make small edits (Admin Only)

We use the 'external financials' function heavily in our Planning environment, and we find it is very helpful in maintaining transparency and data quality control, as the lines cannot be edited by the user. We have ~87,000 lines of centrally agree...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Additional recommendations for GCP and AWS

GCP: Buckets / CloudSQL / BigQuery AWS: Unassociated Elastic IP / LB / PaaS services / Lambda Some recommendations do not take into account all the characteristics of the instance: e.g. T4g (ARM) on AWS without taking into account the specific OS.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Not under consideration

It would be extremely valuable if Agile Release Trains has an IsActive attribute just like Teams have an IsActive attribute

Agile Release Trains are not permanent, just like Teams are not permanent. Currently Targetprocess allows setting a team to Inactive, which hides it from views and does other things one would expect from an inactive team. However, there is not an ...
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Roadmap colour encoding for entity states periods

If we could have a possibility to include in the roamap the period of time when entity was in e certain state (for example hold/in progress etc) it would enhance a visibility for the entities within it.
8 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 2 Under review

Custom scheduling of instana alert

Custom scheduling of alerting is not available - like volume monitoring alerts to be scheduled only for week days, this will be useful to schedule the alerts only for the required time and ignore false alerts (Latest feedback from https://automati...
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Functionality already exists

To add custom time range in instana chart filter/query

We don't have an option to add custom time range in a chart query - like need to display a chart for last 1 day but without changing time filter of the overall dashboard
8 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure / User Interface 2 Future consideration