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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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Trend Analysis for Anomaly Detection – Tracking Customer Actioning Over Time

Enhance the Anomaly Detection feature in Cloudability with a trend analysis view that tracks how customers are actioning anomalies over time (weekly, monthly, yearly). Display metrics such as: Number of anomalies detected Number acknowledged/close...
17 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Enhancing Sustainability Report/Dashboard

To further support on sustainability goals, we have been continuously implementing the changes in our cloud environments, such as Stop non-prod EC2 instances during weekend & rightsizing, etc. With all those approaches, not just impacting on t...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Populate Resource Name dimension for Azure

The Resource Name dimension isn't populated for Azure. This is a key field, present in the CUR and should be made available in Cloudability. Without it, it is quite cumbersome to always rely on the Resource Id, which is a very long string. Coupled...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Under review

Customisable Alerts by Frequency (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)

Allow customers to create and manage cost or usage alerts in Cloudability with flexible scheduling options daily, weekly, or monthly. Daily alerts: Trigger based on thresholds or anomalies detected in a single day’s spend or usage. Weekly alerts: ...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Improve Cloudability Usage Reporting

We are now starting to receive a monthly file that contains Dashboard and Report views from Cloudability. However, the files are missing important data that would make them much more useful. Dashboard file: The Dashboard file contains the date/tim...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Under review

Instana's Microsoft SQL Server sensor not supporting client-side tracing for PHP application for customer

Customer- SBM Limited has a PHP application instrumented with the Instana agent on CRM APP Server where database calls are not appearing in the Instana traces. SQL queries to mssql are missing. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0...
18 days ago in Instana / PHP 0 Under review

Turbonomic Policy engine provides easy way for set affinity to newer generations of instance types when considering same size so tool does not suggest de-modernizing from db.8g.4xl to db.6g.4xl

Newer cloud Provider instance types may have price/performance benefits that customers are seeking. Customersmay have a policy and practice of running newer instance types (database, virtual machines, ...). It would be helpful if the Turbonomic po...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Allow Admin View all Dashboards

BackgroundCurrently, when users create dashboards and mark them as private, administrators are unable to view or manage those dashboards. This limitation restricts visibility into the full scope of dashboards created within the environment, which ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 0 Under review

Enable User Impersonation Feature in TargetProcess

Current Limitation: TargetProcess does not currently offer a way for administrators to impersonate or assume the view of another user. This limits the ability to effectively troubleshoot user-specific issues or validate permission-based configurat...
2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Ability to pull Network/Memory allocation metrics in Reports and Dashboards/ apptio BI

With the curent capability to build container reports with Utilizations or cost or usage metrics, it is imperative to have CPU/Memory/GPU Allocation metrics available as part of Reports/Dashboards or Apptio BI reports. to provide more clarity, a s...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Under review