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Expand Optimization and Rightsizing Coverage

Cloudability performs well for traditional optimization areas such as EC2 and RDS, but we continue to identify significant savings opportunities through other tools that Cloudability does not surface. During roadmap reviews we highlighted that ext...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Additional Rightsizing Recommendation Types

The current rightsizing engine is useful but too narrowly focused. We would like to see: More recommendation categories beyond traditional instance resizing. Workload-aware recommendations. Rightsizing guidance for managed services. Optimization r...
1 day ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

Version Control Improvements for Business Mappings

Apptio Costing and Planning has a native version control that allows a monthly table to retain schema, layout, etc. from 1 time period to another (between versions). Cloudability's business mapping today requires users to add "Date" and manually s...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Custom Script Sensor

We request the ability for the Instana agent to natively execute scripts on the host and ingest their output as metrics — without relying on Prometheus exporters or OpenTelemetry endpoints, also with a scheduler that runs the script at a defined i...
14 days ago in Instana / Agent Functionality already exists

Changes for Creating a plan name

Since a plan name changes based upon selections under the Plan Name field, our suggestion is to move the plan name to the be the last field a user fills out prior to selecting the "Create Plan" option. Selections that modify the name include Plan ...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Submitted

AWS Credentialing: Role to Role Assumption

Our current AWS CloudFormation template requires customers to grant access to an IAM User principal. IAM Users introduce persistent identity risks, conflict with modern enterprise zero-trust policies, and trigger security compliance flags for pros...
8 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Future consideration

Enable Hierarchical Business Mapping Using Existing Business Dimensions - all hierarchy levels

Many organizations use ServiceNow CMDB as the system of record for application ownership and business alignment. After integrating Cloudability with ServiceNow, we can automatically retrieve metadata such as: Enterprise Business Group Application ...
about 17 hours ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Automatically modify device polling frequencies during business and non-business hours to optimize monitoring efficiency

Monitoring Frequency Continue monitoring at the standard interval(very frequent) during business hours. During off-business hours, perform monitoring at an hourly interval (every 1 hour).
about 22 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Submitted

Ability to measure Apdex in Mobile Apps

The Apdex (Application Performance Index) score converts raw application metrics into a single, easy-to-understand user satisfaction score from 0 to 1. It replaces misleading averages by grouping experiences into satisfied, tolerating, or frustrat...
1 day ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring Submitted

Sort the list of Policies into alphabetical order

As a Turbo admin, I'd like to be able to quickly scan the list of Policies (especially the Default & User defined policies) to find the one I'm looking for. The list of Policies is currently not sorted, which makes it difficult to find the Pol...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted

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