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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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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

ROI Policy - S3

As a FinOps practitioner at a large organization, I need to be able to track savings recommendations and actioned savings for all services. At this time, S3 is not a supported by the ROI policy so we are unable to track savings MoM.
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Cloudability RightSizing Snooze auditability

As a Cloudability Admin I'd like the RightSizing Snooze functionality improved from an Audibility perspective: - who instigated the snooze itself - when was the snooze enabled - add a comment field to explain the decision Bell provided feedback: T...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Future consideration

Cloudability- Enhance reporting filters to allow multi selection of values

As a FinOps practitioner at a large organization, I often need to report on multiple values relating to services, accounts, account group tags, etc. It's a cumbersome user experience to have to add a filter for each case. By adding a multi-select ...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Authentication mechanism used for the AWS Observer

One of our customer has a security policy in place, that enforces the following mechanism to be used when accessing AWS: The mechanism is to assume an IAM role in the AWS account using the 'sts:AssumeRoleWithSAML' AWS API call. This returns a set ...
8 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Need ability to refresh token within REST 2.0 API call

Need the REST Service 2.0 Beta to request and refresh the authentication 'bearer token' for an API call so that I don't have to manually request the token using a service like Postman.
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Need options other than helm to install the synthetic PoP servers

I'm working with a customer that has access to the kubernetes cluster, but doesn't have access to helm. So, he can't install the synthetic playback (PoP server). We need to provide other options for installing the PoP server. Ideally, provide both...
3 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Retroactive proposals (before 90 days)

I want you to make recommendations using any 90 days of data from the past.Not the last 90 days.The goal is to provide recommendations that take into account past load peaks so that users can perform optimizations in a planned manner. Attach a ref...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 2 Future consideration

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.

Amazon recently announced DB2 on RDS. We'd like to take advantages of AWS infrastructure and ensure DB2 RDS is fully supported with IWS.I know that the product is supported by it's version and platform may not impact it. However, I'd like to ensur...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Planned for future release

Azure Application Insights monitoring

Support for collecting metrics, traces and logs from Azure Application InSight. This would enable insight into SaaS applications.
9 months ago in Instana / Azure / Sensor 1 Planned for future release