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Forecasting Capability in Apptio BI reports

Ability to add forecast widgets based on the set budgets. To understand the estimated future cost for a particular workload (compute, Storage etc).
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release

Would like Centralized Agent upgrade process to support deployment of iFixes

Currently, if we want to deploy an iFix for our FTA/DA agents we have to create an install script and then remote into each server and manually apply the iFix.It would be nice if installing an iFix was as easy as deploying a FixPack via the centra...
over 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add seasonality to Smart Alerts Error and Warning Log Blueprint

As an Instana user i need the functionality to alert on Error and Warn Logs with a daily or weekly seasonality. This is crucial for Smart Alerts on Logs where a certain percentage of an occuring log message is tollerated and it is not possible to ...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Version Controlling in Omnibus WebGUI Filters and Views

We need to have a version controlling for the Omnibus WebGUI Filters and Views, so that we could track who is changing them. Also if we could implement version controlling like Netcool/Impact it will be easy enough for whole WebGUI.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Not under consideration

Support for Branch Description Text in Studio

Branches are usually created for a specific reason and many clients archive branches for later reference. It becomes difficult for the users/admins to recall the purpose the branch was created when the archived branch gets too old but still needs ...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Planned for future release

Remove 'Utilisation Data' radio button for non-AWS customers

A number of our consumers use Cloudability as a central source of data but are left dispondant becuase they try to use the 'Utilisation Data' radio button under metrics and dimensions. As we are an Azure consumer and the Utilisation Data is only a...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Ability for admins to toggle cloudability features off and on

In a large enterprise not all functionality provided by Apptio can be simply exposed to customers. A good example of this recently was the new Sustainability feature, in a regulated industry there is some sensitivity around making sure figures aro...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Include / Exclude option for Cloud Service Provider(s)

Whilst I appreciate that Cloudability is a Multi-cloud SaaS service, it would be really nice if the customer could toggle the various CSP's off or on as a configuration setting. If a customer is only using a single CSP, it would be beneficial to t...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to create stacked graphs in CLDY.

Example to limit results to x number and dynamically group the remaining spend into an "Other" dimension. Functionality was previous released for Apptio BI but we do not intend to adopt Apptio BI so would like this functionality in Cloudability re...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration