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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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Keep Apptio Gov Help Up To Date with Commercial

The gov version of Apptio Help seems to not get updated as often as Commercial. According to gov help on 2/10/25 (https://help-gov.apptio.com/cloudability/whats-new.htm), the last update to Cloudability was on September 30, 2024.
7 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Ability to Star Reports I Don't Own

I would like to be able to star an out of the box report without having to make a copy of it. This would be helpful in managing the list of reports and allow me to go to the Starred reports for the ones that I'm interested in.
7 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Ability to search/filter in a table widget on Dashboard

Currently if you have a long list of items in a table widget, there is no way to search or filter so you have to scroll through the entire list to find what you are looking for. Could we have the same ability to filter a table, as we do in Apptio ...
7 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Auto-refresh Report on Page Refresh or every 1 minute

We recommend implementing an auto-refresh feature for the reports, either on page load or every minute. This is especially beneficial for scenarios where actions are completed in under a minute, and users expect to see real-time updates reflected ...
7 days ago in Targetprocess / Reports 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

The Rightsizing Jira integration should reference issue_id not issue_key to ensure linking connection.

Sometimes a Jira ticket for a rightsizing opportunity is created on one board and then it is determined another team needs to own the work so the Jira ticket is moved to that teams board. If this happens the integration back into Cloudbaility for ...
14 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 0 Submitted

COPA OA: Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.

Thread details and termination for WebSphere threads (webcontainer, EJB calls) is required to troubleshoot long running workloads.Need the capability to generate thread dumps to view the current thread activity. This is useful for long running wor...
21 days ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 0 Submitted

Sort on Cost or Usage when viewing costs by date dimension

Currently, we are not able to sort by cost or any usage metric when viewing a visual by a date dimension while using Cloudability data. As an example, if I want to see Daily Costs in January, I can not sort from largest to smallest account spend b...
8 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
15 days ago in Instana / WAS 0 Submitted

Would like to see subfolders in TBM Studio

Having subfolders to organize documents would be helpful because with only one layer the amount of documents makes it hard to sort through and organize.
17 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted