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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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Auto-refresh Report on Page Refresh or every 1 minute

We recommend implementing an auto-refresh feature for the reports, either on page load or every minute. This is especially beneficial for scenarios where actions are completed in under a minute, and users expect to see real-time updates reflected ...
3 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Submitted

Azure Utilization data

I suggest to make Azure Utilization data available in Apptio BI to build reports based on the data. And in addition to expose the data to the API.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Rightsizing ROI Widget totals based on 30/10 days, on-demand/effective

The current widget totals displaying the potential savings and realized savings show add up 10-days and 30-day timeline amounts. However the ticket is created this is how the potential and realized savings are displayed. Thus the total figures are...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Able to query the Instana Events in Grafana

Hi team, There has been a need to have Instana Events in Grafana, the same way as we do right now in the Custom Dashboards, basically, be able to query Critical/Warning and present them in a Grafana widget. Thank you.
9 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Request the implementation of visibility for the AccountingOrigin value within Instana

We would like to request the ACE Instana sensor to collect the Accounting Origin and for it to be deployed with ACE message flow stats. We have multiple MLP implementations that share a single message flow. Currently, we populate the Accounting Or...
15 days ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 2 Submitted

Enable the view of Plan name from IBM CSV billing file

We are looking to get the data about the instance type / family / Category to create reports to track GPU usage in IBMC via Cloudability.As much as I looked the Plan name contain this data that will enable us to create that report. Because this vi...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

New Plug-in: Kafka Job Type and Dashboard

Kafka has become an integral part of the financial services technology stack, enabling real-time event streaming across diverse lines of business. From fraud detection to regulatory compliance, its applications are vast and impactful. However, the...
10 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

BI - Re-sort Tabs

Ability to re-order tabs created in BI report.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Cloudability - Usage Stats

As a Cloudability admin, I should be able to pull usage statistics directly to understand and improve tool adoption. This should include statistics like count of unique users over time, features used within the tool.
5 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Additional field recognized as numeric needed for contract variance analysis.

We are maturing our planning capabilities and have come to the conclusion that a 3% price increase on our contracts is no longer sufficient across the board. In order to forecast more accurately, we are comparing a vendor's current contract price ...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted