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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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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...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 1 Under review

Integration with Greenpixie for sustainability data

Greenpixie is a leader in enriching AWS cost data with detailed sustainability metrics. Having sustainability information in Cloudability along other cost and utilisation information would bring GreenOps and FinOps together based on trusted and ac...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Under review

switch the data in custom dashboards by a specific value (e.g. Namespace)

We are using Instana to monitor our environment where systems are deployed per Namespace on OpenShift.We have a custom dashboard with the same content that summarizes the time series and scores for each Namespace.If we had the ability to switch da...
15 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0

Plugin Amazon S3 - Using Proxy for AWS S3 Connections

We are experiencing an issue with the "s3" plugin in IBM IWS (Amazon S3 integration). It appears that the plugin does not use the configured proxy settings to connect to AWS S3, resulting in a connection failure. Please check out the case I opened...
15 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Ability to sort reference data as related to dropdown lists

I would like the ability to sort reference data (cost center, department, accounts, and projects) by code or names. Most of our codes are alpha and numeric (ex: C4310, C3320, I26B, I78A) but the dropdown lists usually sort by name resulting in a w...
27 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Enable multi-year TARGETs

We do a lot of multi-year budgeted, but are unable to leverage the TARGETS feature because it only applies to the first year of the "plan". We need multi-year TARGETs to match our state biennial budget cycle.
27 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Managing Plans - Grouping and Access

To help with useability of Planning especially if you have multiple plans - 1) Have a grouping of plans - would allow the drop down to have the group first and then open to see the plans within the group 2) Allow users to be given permission and o...
28 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release

Filtering options in custom dashboards

Add live filter options in customer dashboard. Say you have an custom dashboard for one specific application to see the overview. But then you want to filter in that dashboard for a specific user, server etc. Just like you have filter options in A...
2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Under review

Capability to monitor database blockings & wait times in instana

We are unable to monitor databases using Instana, as we don't see options for tracking database blocking, wait times, and similar metrics. Databases: RDS Postgre MSSQL
5 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Delete actions, such as unnecessary snapshots and virtual NICs

I would like you to present actions to reduce waste other than VMs, Volumes, and DBs. I want to centrally manage wasted resources with Turbonomic.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release