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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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Views - Default to Showing All Data

Ability for Users to not have a set View as default. Ability to not be forced to be filtered on a given View on home page of Cloudability. When having multiple vendors integrated, the need to not be filtered on a given vendor is important. As an A...
10 minutes ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Views - Can't see who created/using

Admins can't see who created a given View and who is using. We are left with stale Views do to not being able to validate if still in use or if a View is owned by someone that is no longer with company or changed roles. Also a way to easily downlo...
20 minutes ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

BI - Ability to see who is subscribed to or accessing Reports

Admins need a way to see who is subscribed to or accessing/viewing the report/dashboard to allow for notification if report/dashboard is planned for deletion. When personnel change roles or leave company, we are stuck with old reports that can't b...
27 minutes ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Cloudability Ownership/Users of Reports and Dashboards

It'd be helpful to see a "creation date" and and "created by" value for each dashboard, and report. As an Admin to also have access to see reports that aren't shared with Organization. When personnel leave company or role, can't remove/reassign fr...
35 minutes ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
about 4 hours ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Submitted

Support for Cassandra Monitoring for DSE 6.8.48

Currently version of Instana supports Cassandra monitoring for (DSE) 6.0.x, 6.7.17, 6.8 to 6.8.42 . Support for DSE 6.8.48 series will help teams to have complete Cassandra monitoring in Instana.
about 8 hours ago in Instana / SRE 0 Submitted

Improve currently non-intuitive Right-Sizing policies and ROI functionality

1) When creating a right-sizing policy, clicking "Save and Run" will only generate tickets according to the schedule, rather than to run the policy immediately. This is confusing. If I set a Daily schedule and click Save and Run it will generate a...
about 8 hours ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Submitted

Additional field recognized as numeric needed for contract variance analysis.

We are maturing our planning capabilities and have come to the conclusion that a 3% price increase on our contracts is no longer sufficient across the board. In order to forecast more accurately, we are comparing a vendor's current contract price ...
about 19 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Change default to "off" under Preferences for Cloud Spend Summary Emails

Users (Executives) receive "all in" emails and causes more questions, since filters aren't setup properly to exclude certain Sellers. There isn't much control over the User onboarding process from an administrative standpoint.
about 21 hours ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Adding Account Owners to Rightsizing Dashboard

While we can customize our reports in BI with various dimensions, we are specifically referring to the rightsizing recommendations that help us navigate suggested scenarios. See the attached screenshot. I remember this was discussed before the CLD...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted