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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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Recommending the ideal configuration based on demand "forecasts".

Currently, Turbonomic actions can only be generated based on historical statistical data. However, we would like to receive recommendations for optimal configuration in advance, anticipating events such as the annual busy season that will occur ne...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Validate deployment on Nutanix

Customers are looking at Nutanix as an alternative to Broadcom/VMware. This requrest is to support deploying SevOne NPM on Nutanix virtualization.
6 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 1 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

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.
9 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Multi-level approval flows that is independent of the department hierarchy

We would like multi-level approval flows that is independent of the department hierarchy. In our state authorizing environment, we have certain use cases where there are 2 approving agencies. Currently, you can set 2 users as the cost object owner...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1

Ability to Publish Approval Status to Cost Transparency

When publishing data from IT Planning to Cost Transparency, we'd like to be able to see the cost center approval status. We use automated data mgmt a on a daily basis, but we only want to publish the approved cost centers. Sending the status colum...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Future consideration

Increase Shared Rules Values field character limit

In Cloudability / Insights / Containers (Container Insights 2.0), I want to add some 'shared rules'. - The values field is limited to 50 characters only. This means I might be able to add 2... or maybe 3 namespaces only. - Given that I need to add...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration