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Closed Project Codes non-selectable in Plans

This would be useful because Project Codes close during a fiscal year and need to be retained in reference data for the associated line items in the plan. However, if end users are unaware that a code has been closed, they can still plan expenses ...
30 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Toggle whether to get alerted when the issue is resolved for IBMi Message Queue Events

When the agent works on IBMi, when monitoring specific messages in a message queue, we receive two notifications: A warning when the message is detected (event triggered) Another notification when the event closes (event resolved) For this specifi...
30 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Not under consideration

Conditional or Correlated Alert Logic in Instana (e.g., “Alert on X unless Y is high”)

We would like to have the ability to define conditional or correlated alert logic in Instana. For example, we need to trigger an alert when there are too many 404 responses on a specific endpoint, but only if the number of login requests is not hi...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Not under consideration

Support for AWS Cost Categories

We currently have AWS cost categories in place and is extensively used to reflect our organisation structure, ownership and allocation for our costs. Rather than redoing this work via Business Mapping it would be great if Cloudability could import...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

In Infrastructure Map, change the normal status color of zOS node boxes from Gray to White

In the infrastructure map, all normal nodes are in white, other than zOS nodes which are in gray color and appears to be inactive. We integrate OMEGAMON infrastructure metric at OS level only for zOS node, not other component. As for distributed n...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Use fuzzy match on tags and label names for assigning to dimensions

Sometimes similar tags or labels are created that follow a pattern, it would be useful to be able to use fuzzy logic in finding matching tags and labels. For instance "clustername" it could be within "karpenter.sh/discovery/ClusterName" or aws:Clu...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Rightsizing support for MSK clusters

Rightsizing support for MSKAWS MSK: https://aws.amazon.com/msk/ GCP MSK: https://cloud.google.com/managed-service-for-apache-kafka/docs/overview
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Admin ability to maintain discount rates when CSP does not provide them directly.

Currently when new contracts are signed, rates need to be updated by Apptio team. Customers would like to be able to maintain this information directly without needing to involve support teams. Customers both an UI and API update / maintenance fun...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2

Support Parquet format AWS CUR 2.0

Parquet allows for better compression and thus smaller file sizes. Adding to support for CUR 2.0 in parquet format lowers the amount of data needing to be stored.
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0

Support views based on K8s labels in Containers

Being able to provide users with access to only the information relevant to them is important to customers. Customers would like to be able to use label based views to filter to only specific labels in containers. This would filter the list to onl...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Submitted