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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 ...
8 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 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...
1 day ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Provide an option in Orchestration Monitor to display all job run instances within a job stream by default

Within the Orchestration Monitor, when a job has multiple executions due to manual reruns, Recovery Options, or the "Repeat Every" setting, only the most recent instance of the job is displayed in the job stream view. Currently, users must select ...
1 day ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Rightsizing Recommendations for Block Storage

Help customers identify unused block storage and reduce overprovisined volumes
37 minutes ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Rightsizing Recommendations for CloudWatch

Help customers optimize CloudWatch by providing actionable recommendations
41 minutes ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Rightsizing Recommendations for AWS Sagemaker

Help customers optimize AWS Sagemaker by providing actionable recommendations
about 1 hour ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

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...
about 2 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 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...
about 5 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

GCP Reserved Instance Support

In Cloudability we can see our existing CUDs in GCP, and CUD recommendations. We would also like to see existing Reserved Instances and Reserved Instance recommendations added to the "Portfolio" and "Recommendations" tabs for GCP.
about 7 hours ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Deploy and configure Kubeturbo and the Turbonomic Admission Controller at scale via Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM) Policies

Problem Statement Today, installing Kubeturbo and the Turbonomic Admission Controller (TAC) on a managed Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster requires an installation per cluster using the selected deployment method (YAML, HELM, OpenShift Operator Hub,...
about 9 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted