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Capture and expose hourly and daily user metrics and usage for analysis and debugging

Provides visibility into user workload on system and components at a point in time. Can be used to debug observed performance degradation. Can also be used to provide management visibility into overall usage and adoption. Some example metrics:&nbs...
about 10 hours ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Add an option to disable workflow approvals for those of us not using the approval workflow.

We do not use the approval workflow in Planning.  In the old version of planning the alert icon on the banner pages showed up but did not display anything.  In the new version the icon is expanded with a description of how may cost objec...
3 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Submitted

Snowflake 2.0 DB tags ingestion

Cloudability currently ingests account-level and warehouse-level tags from Snowflake Org 2.0. We would like to request support for ingesting database-level tags as well.
1 day ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Start using VolumeStalledIOCheck as a possible metric to calculate EBS availability (SLO)

To improve accuracy of created SLO rules for this service type, the VolumeStalledIOCheck is one of the possible additional metrics that can help on this case. "This alarm helps you monitor the IO performance of your Amazon EBS volumes. This check ...
10 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add a combined VM memory utilization metric to UI widgets that displays VMEM utilization plus Transient Memory as a single effective memory-demand value.

Overview Add a new commodity or derived metric to IBM Turbonomic UI widgets that combines VMEM utilization and Transient Memory into a single value representing the VM’s effective memory demand. Today, the UI displays VMEM utilization and Transien...

Query Builder built directly into the Grafana Plugin

Currently, when creating dashboards and alerts in Grafana and utilising the Instana Datasource (especially for Trace data), it is expected to provide a JSON tagFilterExpression Object for the query. This is a huge challenge and most users, especia...
2 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Make the Dashboard Filter aware of what other filters are being used

Provide functionality to pre-filter a second, third, etc based on what the first filter was selected.   Currently filter options appear when the wouldn't be included based on the first filter. i.e Vendor and Service are set up as Filters. Whe...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Expand the size of the Cloudability Dashboard Level Filter display box

This would allow for better visibility to what filters are available since it truncates causing confusion on what filter to select.
2 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Add a Refresh button for each tab to quickly update changes and recalculate

There are two distinct scenarios for this Refresh button idea. The first is for making changes to existing data, like changing the account so it aligns to its related actuals, updating a vendor name, etc. When changes like this are made, it does n...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Enable OCLI and Composer extract/create commands to append output to an existing file

Currently, when using OCLI or Composer to extract multiple object types, each extract operation requires its own output file. As a result, users must execute multiple extract commands and manage multiple files before performing a subsequent add or...
3 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted