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Include entityID information for Delete/Suspend actions in Executed Actions exports

Currently, entityID is not included in the Executed Actions downloads for Delete and Suspend action types. The lack of this information prevents tracking of savings at a per-entity level. Without this information, our FinOps team cannot accurately...
30 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Needs more information

Add Kinesis Firehose Support to instaawsv2

We have a data ingestion application written in Go, which performs validation and enrichment before sending into a Kinesis Firehose endpoint. Although several other AWS services we use are instrumented automatically using instaawsv2, for Kinesis, ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Go Needs more information

Simplifying the API call to fetch the device health statistics . And also option to extract the reports in PDF using API call. Kind of some template or Multiple device report at the same time .

This feature can be used to pull the reports , Device health statistics using Simple API calls from an agent .
13 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

Would like to be able to add an exception on a smart alert from a log message (not error message but log message)

We have a need to add an exception on a smart alert from a log message. I know you can from a error message, couldn't find a way to add via log message opened a incident TS022470818 to see if there was a way and was told there was not but to put i...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert Needs more information

BUG: We don't see any ways to filter anomaly with the Business Mappings that we create

BUG: We don't see any ways to filter anomaly with the Business Mappings that we create. Example if i wanted to set-up an alert based on Users there is no way i could achieve this in cloudability.
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection Needs more information

Improve SNMP walk API endpoint in SevOne NPM

There should be a v3 API endpoint to run a SNMP walk command from any peer to a device. Enhancing /api/v3/metadata/devices/snmpwalk might work for this purpose. Currently, it does not take a peer ID as an argument. The ability to specify a specifi...
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Needs more information

Option to download the list of clusters tracked on cloudability

1.We keep on adding new clusters, removing existing clusters. Various teams reach out to us asking for the list of latest clusters 2. To download the list of the latest clusters (by vendor, type of clusters etc.,) and also to identify the ones tha...
18 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting Needs more information

Add additional granularity for hourly rightsizing opportunities to allow nighttime savings in rightsizing

Add granularity to the billing/costing information for Azure and GCP to allow for bucketing based on time of day (work weeks) as well as weekend and potential savings. Process similar to AWS.
18 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Needs more information

BareMetal Installation Awareness

When connected to a barmetal Openshift Cluster, Turbo assumes that baremetal hosts are virtual machines. I thought some awareness around what the platform was actually installed on would be great.
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) Needs more information

Vendor Commitment burn-down tracking. Commitment> Budget> Spend calibration

Here at Sherwin Williams, we have a large number of commitments to spending on cloud products. We've built an ApptioBI dashboard that supports entering start>end dates, total commitment amount, and monthly spend. However, we have not found a wa...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Needs more information