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Allow users to change the pre-defined severity of a built-in event and allow to change the related metric thresholds

There is a bunch of built-in events, but in some cases users won't agree with the severity level of the events or the selected metric thresholds. Please allow users to change these in built-in events. Seems like something that should have been pos...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Alert 2 Not under consideration

Add on new basic messaging protocol "MQTT" to NMS.

IOT is growing in the IT infrastructure monitoring and the end customer will hope he can consolidation monitor over all. MQTT is growing to IOT standard protocol and the other brands NMS have been added MQTT in their protocol. For example: Zabbix....
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Future consideration

Support Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms for TLS-based communications.

Additional security. Hello Team, We would like to confirm whether SevOne appliances support TLS-based connectivity for protocols such as HTTPS, SSH, and LDAP. If there are additional protocols that utilize TLS on the appliance, please let us know....
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Future consideration

Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

Add an API endpoint that returns CLOUDABILITY_API_KEY for a given cluster ID

We use Cloudability to monitor our kubernetes clusters, however the deployment manifests returned by calling this API endpoint - https://api.cloudability.com/v3/containers/provisioning/ {cluster_id} /config (where {cluster_id} is the ID of a kuber...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Issues with ITP rows with prior months data

In ITP today, users can delete a row that has data in prior months and when a row is duplicated, prior months populate as well as future months
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Functionality already exists

ITP Manual publishes result in 1 build after the final publish

Every night at 5 pm, we publish 5 tables from ITP to Cost Transparency. Each publish creates a separate calc in TBM Studio. In order to save time, we have to cancel the running calc so all builds roll up. This is a manual process.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Allow scheduled BI dashboard reports to be delivered in Excel (XLSX) or CSV format, in addition to PDF.

Currently, Cloudability only supports scheduled BI dashboard report delivery via email in PDF format. For reporting flexibility, we would like the ability to receive scheduled dashboard exports in CSV or Excel format. This would enable better data...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future 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

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration