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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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Enhanced Report Export for AWS Commitment Recommendations

We are currently working on AWS commitment recommendations and have encountered a limitation in the report export functionality. Specifically, when exporting reports from Cloudability, the output includes all instances available for reservations w...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Implement ADM for Line Item Filters, Cost Object Permissions and Project Permissions in ITP

It will benefit all customers as the data transfer will be automated without requiring any manual effort
3 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Planned for future release

MS Graph probe

Vodafone Spain is using the Email probe with POP3 protocol to read a mailbox. They want to migrate that mailbox to Office 365 and they need to use another protocol to read the mailbox. They cannot use the EWS probe because it has a SOCKS proxy, wh...
5 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Planned for future release

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Create a new Presets button in the Time range Presets options for 'Last month' (or 'Last 28 days', something like this)

Simce Instana can show metrics up to 1 month why isn't there this kinda button in the presets. This can help with showing the 'Monthly overview' of the metrics f.e. in the Custom Dashboard section. Place where I imagine this idea to be developed a...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Planned for future release

Waterfall Chart in Cost Transparency

This enhancement request would allow us to view the full page of the waterfall chart in the Cost Transparency > Production environment and hide the data entry table that is only needed in TBM Studio > Development environment.  However, ...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 1 Planned for future release

Dollar value for on-prem scaling - just like Cloud. Each action has a saving/cost to it.

The customer would like Turbo to put a price tag on each action. They want to be able to tell how much adding vMem or vCPU or a combo. to a VMware VM costs. The customer is aware that it depends on a bunch of things (cost/hr of host, cost/hr of da...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Planned for future release

improvement for the PostgreSQL Sensor

Unlike other sensors, unfortunately the postgres-sensor does not do any retries if initial connection to the database fails. Instead the agent needs to be restarted.
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Change commitment portfolio to not show incomplete data

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...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Planned for future release

Action Persistence score

The Turbonomic ideal is that Customers trust our actions – and automate so that those Cloud VM scale actions happen automatically – perhaps every night. This is NOT what happens in the real world. Customers or App Teams have problems either trusti...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Planned for future release