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Ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. 

Hi, the ask here is to have an ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. Or as an alternative, to have an archive option instead of just delete. Thanks
24 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Under review

Add resource id on Anomaly alerts/subscriptions

Idea : Is to add resource id on Anomaly alerts/subscription so that customer's can get an idea of the affected resources just through the subscription alert. While I do understand that link provided in the alert (redirecting to CLDY page) provided...
24 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Extend Cost Sharing functionality

Better Cost Sharing functionality multi-vendor. Cost Sharing in multiple Business Mappings but filtered in one view.
24 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Provide the ability to restrict user groups to a single specific view

This will ensure particular set of users will only be able to view the data they own / are authorized to view. Right now, since this feature is unavailable, users are able to see other views also
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Views 4 Under review

Rightsizing recommendation support for Elasticache & Elastisearch

Hi team, I believe that a significant number of customers have considerable spend on key AWS services like ElastiCache and Elasticsearch. It would be highly valuable to have rightsizing recommendations available for these services to help optimize...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Needs more information

Create role permission to disable right click options for end users

End users can right click on any table in any report and select "Show Full Data Path", "Create Published Table", and "Trace Lineage for this component" - screenshot attached. These are not options that our end users should have the ability to use ...
6 months ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Ability to pull Network/Memory allocation metrics in Reports and Dashboards/ apptio BI

With the curent capability to build container reports with Utilizations or cost or usage metrics, it is imperative to have CPU/Memory/GPU Allocation metrics available as part of Reports/Dashboards or Apptio BI reports. to provide more clarity, a s...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Under review

Enable User Impersonation Feature in TargetProcess

Current Limitation: TargetProcess does not currently offer a way for administrators to impersonate or assume the view of another user. This limits the ability to effectively troubleshoot user-specific issues or validate permission-based configurat...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Report exports should show business mapping names as column headers rather than reference IDs

When a business mapping field is used as a dimension in a report, the mapping name shown in the UI does not get passed through the exported report. Instead the column name would be something like 'category1'. This is really annoying and potentiall...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Planned for future release

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration