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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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Filter entities in Quick add by role and project

Currently, when using Quick Add, users see all the entities in the instance, including different terms defined in different projects. It does not appear that these are limited based on what projects the user is assigned to nor what permissions the...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Not under consideration

Retain the ResourceName/ID for entities deleted/no longer in Turbo so they are available when looking at Executed Actions/Realized Savings

There is a need to correlate the specific action(s) taken on a resource to the savings/investments resulting from said action. This is done by downloading info from the Savings widget to get the resource name, then searching for same resource name...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Share Cloudability users analytics

Add to the Cloudability admin console a widget with usage by our users (analytics)
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Needs more information

Collect tags at the AWS/GCP organization level

Need to create a custom script to create business mappings (with hard-coded values).
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Needs more information

Advanced filtering management on business mapping without having to use API queries

Integration in the query interface with several simultaneous conditions
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Not under consideration

Visibility on the autoshutdown of instances

Recommendations related to the use of the instances Specify a time slot and check for machines that do not comply with autoshutdown.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

UI / Widgets / Dashboards

· Comments on a widget · Addition of text fields / custom layout
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Data Reprocessing for Business Mappings

Need to create a support ticket to request a reprocessing of the data for Business Mappings (and wait 24 hours after the processing)
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

Datadog metric history plot

Impossible to have the metrics for more than 30 days even with DataDog integration (we would like 3 or 6 months)
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Additional recommendations for GCP and AWS

GCP: Buckets / CloudSQL / BigQuery AWS: Unassociated Elastic IP / LB / PaaS services / Lambda Some recommendations do not take into account all the characteristics of the instance: e.g. T4g (ARM) on AWS without taking into account the specific OS.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Not under consideration