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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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Cloudability: S3 Bucket Prefixes

We are trying to use Apptio to analyze my AWS costs, but I noticed that it doesn't support S3 bucket prefixes. That means I can't filter or group my data by different prefixes within the same bucket. That's a bummer, because I have a lot of prefix...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Full integration with Green Pixie

Green Pixies GreenOps solution is fully integrated with Apptio A1 and can export from CLDY to run their emissions enrichment service, however, it would be most useful if there was full integration with Green Pixie within Cloudability in order to v...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Under review

FinOps Review Framework And Data Governance in FinOps

Cloud cost are managed through resource tagging, cloud account Identifiers and various FinOps engineering, finance team, cost owners concept created within the organization to retrieve various aspect of cost reporting. On top of these constructs A...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

On IBM AIX, Instana should not count filecache (completely) as "used_memory"

AIX by default uses available memory as filecache (between limits set by parameters minperm% and maxperm%), usually up to 90% of the total memory size. When the applications use only a small portion of available memory, the remainder (or large par...
4 months ago in Instana / IBM Power 2 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Add to DWC "TEXT EDIT" option to IWS Workload Designer , similar to the layout of composer

As discussed with Marco and DWC level 3 development team , last week. We would like to see an enhancement to DWC Workload Designer where we can have the option of " Text Editor" , so the IWS object we have chosen is displayed similar to the compos...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to expand tables within PDF Report

Provide the ability to expand on the tables embedded in the PDF report. Specifically for tables that have subtotals configured
17 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Provide a Concurrent Count of VMs

This will help determine an accurate count of non-ephemeral workloads, which will help with software licensing requirements etc.
17 days ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 0 Submitted

Allow for the customization for additional months of data refetch

Credits are often issued for charges further back than the current or previous month. Allow for the customization to refetch data back multiple months by default, preventing a manual refetch process
18 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Under review

Add RDS Customizations to Rightsizing Preferences Page

This would allow for the customization of what recommendations are being made for RDS, either by usage family, costs, etc
18 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Planned for future release