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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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Create parser for IBM Turbonomic logs when redirected to Google SecOps (Chronicles)

The syslog or audit log from IBM Turbonomic can be further analyzed to ensure proper security measures are in place when the logs are redirected to external SecOps systems such as Google SecOps (Chronicles). However, a parser is required on Google...
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Usage by Hour Ability with GCP Data and Off Hours Savings Tracker

Our company is wanting to see potential savings by spinning down resources during off hours but are currently restricted as Cloudability only supports the day of week for time period and not hours for GCP data (GCP billing data has usage_start and...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Future consideration

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...
26 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...
26 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...
26 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0

Export ApptioBI widget to PNG or JPEG

This will be useful for including ApptioBI graphs in presentations rather than using a screenshot.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Show Configuration Changes in Anomaly Reports

Add a feature to track changes in system configurations and show them in anomaly reports. This can work by pulling data about configuration changes (like from billing systems or logs) and marking the dates of those changes in the reports. This way...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Needs more information

Create additional fields for interfaces collected by the SevOne Observer for AIOps

1) In the current version of the SevOne Observer, there is no way to associate interface into a resource group. There is no field to identify what device a interface belongs to. A field should be added to the interface record that includes the dev...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 4 Future consideration

Display QAUDJRN audit metrics in customized dashboard

This capability would be useful for our AS400 customers who needs to parse their QAUDJRN audit journal metrics to a dashboard. So far, Instana can retrieve the metrics but unable to display it properly in its dashboard. We can extract the journal ...
10 months ago in Instana / IBM i 2 Future consideration

Business or work day of month option for scheduling

(This is in relation to earlier idea https://community.apptio.com/idea/work-day-schedule, which was marked incorrectly as delivered.) Please add a recurrence option when scheduling connectors to use business or work days for monthly schedules. Be...
8 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted