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(Public) Support for gMSA accounts in IWS. Allow IWS to use gMSA accounts to execute jobs

(Public) gMSA for service accounts offer additional security and will not require manual updating of passwords. IWS currently requires standard user accounts (the Microsoft definition) to execute jobs, and not gMSA or sSMA accounts.
over 1 year ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

API Support for Cloudability Containers – Metrics Agent Observability

We greatly value the recently released metrics agent observability tool and believe that enabling API support would unlock even greater potential.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Filter out GP2 recommendations from Right Sizing

As an Administrator of our Cloudability environment I would like to be able to configure some base Right Sizing preferences to *ignore* all recommendations for AWS GP2 storage. There doesn't appear to be any capability to do that at this time. Aff...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Apply a filter to the entire dashboard

Like the new feature that allows us to select a date range for an entire dashboard, I would like to be able to select other dimensions as a filter, rather than having to create a view each time.For example : Filter a dashboard by AWS payer ID, or ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0

Enable the "Apply Filters Dependency" for dashboard filters.

Currently, the dashboard filters do not apply filter dependencies, which forces user to type their options in the filters and sometime when the list expands beyond 150, it doesn't even appear.  Enabling this will elevate the user expereince....
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Filters 2 Future consideration

Change the message description for Built-In event to show in understandable format

As of now we are getting multiple information Instana in Built-In event such as message , subsystem & job monitoring. The raw information such as description of the event is passed as it is to the ticketing tool in which it's showing the data ...
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 5 Future consideration

Events should not be closed automatically until the issue gets resolved

The events are getting auto-closed in Instana for all the metrics such as Jobs, CPU, etc. We want the event to be closed only if the issue is resolved in the next poll.
5 months ago in Instana / IBM i 4 Not under consideration

Notify admins on system failures (i.e. AR, Metrics, etc...)

Current Limitation: TargetProcess does not currently provide any form of notification or alerting mechanism for system-level errors or failures. This includes—but is not limited to—issues with: Automation rule execution Synchronization failures Lo...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Additions to the OOTB-reports - Budget

Currently, the service and consumer reports does not include budget figures. This is an important part for the IT-department to compare their actual cost and understand how the underspending of certain labor & vendor cost affects the services ...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 4 Needs more information

Workbench mapping additions

Right now, the workbench mapping can somewhat be a exhausting and inefficient task I'll do an example of a solution offering in the FLS case, that needs to be mapped to the consumers to give a better understanding of the issue: We have a solution ...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 2 Future consideration