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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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BI - Re-sort Tabs

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

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
11 days ago in Instana / Self Hosted 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 ...
12 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Avoid duplicating work to submit Ideas for items already told to TAM

Even though we meet with and have an established relationship with IBM for multiple products with TAM. Share our current roadmap and needs many times. But are instead told, must open idea on website. And IBM is telling us to open an idea on the IB...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Request to Add Timestamp Column for All Transactions in Target Process

Dear Team, Could you please ensure that a timestamp column is included for all transactions in the Target Process . It is important that moving forward, all entries capture the timestamp consistently to maintain accurate tracking and reporting. Re...

Cloudability: S3 Bucket Prefixes

We are trying to use Apptio to analyze my AWS costs, but I noticed that it doesn't support S3 bucket prefixes. That means I can't filter or group my data by different prefixes within the same bucket. That's a bummer, because I have a lot of prefix...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Right Sizing Recommendation Include Sustainability Savings Data

When viewing right sizing recommendations I need to see the sustainability benefit of making the change as well as the cost benefit. I am working with Green Pixie who I would like to integrate their data sources with Cloudability so I can view the...
13 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

FinOps Review Framework And Data Governance in FinOps

Cloud cost are managed through resource tagging, cloud account Identifiers and various FinOps engineering, finance team, cost owners concept created within the organization to retrieve various aspect of cost reporting. On top of these constructs A...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Addition of disabling stack trace retrieval for monitored processes in InstanaAgent configuration

Regarding the inquiry made in IBM Case: TS018068058, I have received a response stating that when retrieving Java traces, stack traces are obtained each time a span is captured. To disable stack trace retrieval, it is necessary to configure the JV...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Savings Portfolio - daily savings and utilization graphs need to avoid using a red bar for the current day (early morning?). This seemed to me to be a warning to be researched, but instead it was just that the current day's data had not been fully consumed.

Avoid panic! How about making the utilization bar grey until the entire day is ingested/computed?
8 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Submitted