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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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Logging and Display Features for "Send Mail" in CT Report Export

Currently, the "Send Mail" feature does not keep logs of sent emails. For the client I am responsible for, the inability to review the sending history of emails makes it difficult to properly handle user requests for sending confirmations. Proposa...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

Role Visibility By Product

Currently, when assigning a role in Frontdoor, it displays roles from all IBM products, which causes confusion during the assignment process. Ideally, if roles are assigned within Cloudability, it should only show the roles that have permissions f...
6 days ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 1 Submitted

Message queue alert to be triggered based on message type and severity for specific queue.

We have requirement to monitor the alerts for message queue based on message type and severity for specific queue. For example, message type is "Diagnostic" and Severity is >= 90 while checking in a queue "Queue-Name".
6 days ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted

Improve the way Azure Disk recommendations are displayed in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing

When looking at Azure Disk recommendations in Cloudability Optimize | Rightsizing, the THROUGHPUT (MB/S) chart of the Recommendations page is confusing, as the units are actually in Mbps. Please remove the capitalisation so the units are unambiguo...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Future consideration

Metrics that are inside a pod (f.e. artifacts, containers, shared storage, etc.) in Instana

There are no such things in Instana right now. It can help with resolving issues f.e. the pod is in the Running state but it's not working because of the missing or not working properly artifact.
6 days ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

Improved functionality -Scheduling maintenance windows

The maintenance windows, but what happens when the window is active, is that the notifications are not sent through the alert channels that we have implemented, e.g.: no notification is sent through Teams or events to Service Now, however the even...
6 days ago in Instana / Common 0 Submitted

GlassFish Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application when it is not enabled.
27 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Ability to Drill Down within a dashboard widget

The ability to drill down into data on a widget would be incredibly helpful without understanding the data. For example, one particular District is high, ability to drill down to the accounts within that District to help isolate the cause.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Ability to pull in credits from the Vendor

We've switched from CloudHealth to Cloudability because of some capabilities. However one thing we lost in the swap on platforms is the ability to show credits from the vendor. CloudHealth ingests this from AWS and Azure automatically, It would be...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Ability to adjust the fiscal year & quarters when the business's fiscal year doesn't follow the calendar year

The company I'm with Kroger, but I've worked for other companies who's fiscal year didn't follow the calendar year. Because of that Apptio BI and even Cloudability Reports should have the ability to adjust those dates to what suits the company. It...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted