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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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Enable "Object Storage" as a service under the rightsizing section of OCI. Right now, there is only one kind of service i.e., VM

Enable "Object Storage" as another service under the rightsizing section of OCI. This will enable us to track cost & other existing rightsizing related KPIs for Object Storage service as well.
29 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Scheduled reports should also be allowed to have excel/csv attachment.

Scheduled reports should also be allowed to have excel/csv attachment, currently only pdf is supported. This is useful specially for NXN reports. PFA scheduled mail which has only pdf report. The csv needs to be extracted manually.
29 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

When sending alerts from Instana to Opsgenie, please send them in plain text.

This is a customer feature request. Please review it. The related case is TS016826822. When Instana is introduced, the alert transmission structure is "Instana -> Opsgenie -> Slack". When sending a notification message from Instana to Opsgen...
29 days ago in Instana / Alert / Integrations 0 Under review

Duplication of EUM Auto Instrumentation

Currently EUM Auto Instrumentation does not check the preceding EUM javascript entry. In our topology, some requests go through the multiple proxy and EUM javascript is duplicated like bellow. Do we need to check the preceding entry? [root@itz-310...
29 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Under review

Option to select Effective costs in the RightSizing Explorer page

The rest of the pages have the option to show effective costs but not the landing page which only shows on-demand
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
over 1 year ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Print pdf layout in CT to consider custom colour paltette applied to a report

The print to pdf feature in Cost Transparency, prints the report using the standard colour palette. Although applying a custom colour palette to a report, the print functionality doesn't consider the custom colours.
8 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Data Insight Widget - Alert Profile (Addition to Alert Details and Alert Summary Widgets)

Most Monitoring Tools have a dedicated way to tell the end user what polices your device will trigger on. We are looking for a widget that would define all applicable policies to a device. This widget would require you to select a device variable,...
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Azure default configuration.yaml and documentation is very misleading

When looking at the default configuration.yaml for Azure and looking at the documentation, it is very misleading. And, it does not follow standard documentation principals. It causes confusion and causes customers to specify invalid configurations...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Azure 0 Under review

Integrate Comments from Service Now Rightsizing Recommendation records back to Cloudability

Its very difficult to get engineers to take action on Rightsizing - this was the number 1 key priority in FinOps for many years up until 2024 - its still very important - having engineers and FinOps working together in one tool is key to getting t...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration