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A way to calculate cumulative cost/usage over a period of time using calculated metrics

A simple use case is to track commitments with vendor which normally is yearly based on cumulative usage, we should be able to show it in a chart with target line and cost/usage metric showing cumulative values for the time period selected
4 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Build support for subscribing distribution lists to alerts (without the 'service account workaround')

Cloudability customers would like the ability to set up subscriptions (reports, alerts, anomalies, insights, etc) to be delivered to an exisiting distribution list. Today, the only way to do this is to create a service account using the distro lis...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration

Insights on usage

It would be nice to have some tracking information regarding the usage of some views/reports/dashboards/boards. Every so often, we review the left navigation in ATP and try to minimize the length of it. Knowing that views are used a lot vs. never ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Future consideration

Sort field names in the Hide/Rename step of the Transform pipeline

The Hide/Rename step should either have an option to sort field name ascending or descending, or it should just auto sort ascending. When a long list of field names are hidden, it make sit challenging to scroll through to see if a specific field i...
3 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

Alert when trying to edit at the same time

Display an alert when someone attempts to edit something simultaneously with you. This helps prevent overwriting and losing content. E.g. Business mappings, visualisations...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Static visualisation

Enable the option for a static visualization, allowing the visualizations to retain data e.g. for the last 7 days, 30 days, or the past year, even when the date is changed.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Gateway for Message_Bus v2 should include Transformer (and be fully compatible to nco_g_xml)

The new release of the Message Bus Gateway (v2) is announced as being more reliable and having better performance than the existing nco_g_xml. However, it turns out to not contain all the functionality. Our customer (main German Telco company) is ...
4 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

to add attachment option in email alerting using EWS probe

to enable the email alerting with the attachment. Currently in our environment we are monitoring email alerting with EWS probe in the standard format without any attachment option but we are currently trying to add some attachment in XML format so...
4 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 1 Needs more information

Ability to hide/disable shared costs in container insights page

Every organisation will have its own way to calculate shared container costs, cloudability by default is showing the shared costs which it thinks could be part of shared costs,it is adding confusion to the users, we don't have the ability to hide/...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 2 Functionality already exists

Support for instrumenting Gunicorn in python

At the moment when using gunicorn we have to manually instrument the application, which add some complexity in the Development process
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Python 5 Planned for future release