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Commitment Support for AWS Database Savings Plans

AWS has introduced Database Savings Plans, a commitment-based discount model that reduces eligible managed database costs by up to 35% with an hourly $/hour commitment over a 1-year term, automatically applying each hour to eligible database usage...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 4 Planned for future release

New collector development required to discover from NMS - ABB Hitachi

A new collector is required to fetch topology data from ABB Hitachi. Vendor: ABB Hitachi Name: FOXMAN UN R9C Technology: DVM Protocol: SFTP
16 days ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Planned for future release

Conditionally Group Alerts into Topology Resource Groups

We need to be able to apply filters to received alerts to allow them to be conditionally associated with Resource Groups.Our Resource Groups align more closely with incident assignees and contain resources that can be considered "infrastructure" a...
21 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release

Enable Hostname Resolution for Instana Agent Pods Running Without Host Network

Currently, in Kubernetes clusters where the Instana agent runs without hostNetwork mode, the host sensor retrieves the pod name instead of the actual host name (FQDN).This happens because the hostname is determined using the hostname command, whic...
25 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Add support for Google ADK

Currently we are using Google ADK and LiteLLM but to get traces to the Instana backend we have to use OTel which limits observabiltiy and functionality. We would like to request Google ADK support so that tracing works "out of the box".
28 days ago in Instana / GenAI observability 0 Planned for future release

Need ability to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data - Backend database

In Instana we have ability to configure retention period for metrics data and but not for Traces and Transactional data, I need the same flexibility to configure retention period for Traces and Transactional data as well. for example my clickhouse...
28 days ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Planned for future release

Provide Recommendations Tailor to Expiring Commitments

Currently, Cloudability doesn’t allow users to get recommendations for more commitments if there’s already a plan in place, even if it’s about to expire. It would be helpful if Cloudability could make recommendations for Savings Plans / other comm...
28 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Planned for future release

Use the value "Actuals" for the Source Plan field for actuals rows appended into forecast plans instead of the forecast plan name

Currently, when a forecast plan is created, actuals rows use the plan name in the Source Plan field (e.g., “FY2025 November Forecast”). To improve clarity between actuals and forecast data, we request that actuals rows appended during plan creatio...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 2 Planned for future release

PostgreSql and MongoDB sensors for TADDM

IntesaSanpaolo Bank is one of the biggest bank in Europe and TADDM is currently used to polulate our CMDB (Control Desk). We're interested in the development of 2 new sensors : PostreSql MongoDB
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 0 Planned for future release

Apptio Planning: Map Forecast Actual into Other Tabs

Currently actuals only appear on the Summary tab when Forecasting, it would be beneficial to see actual data in the other tabs, as well. Ideally, there would be a way to separate the actual data by tab when it flows into Planning, so actuals/forec...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Planned for future release