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CSA for GCP Commitments - Extend automated commitment management to GCP Services eligible for Commitments

CSA Enhancement for GCP Commitments, extend automated commitment management to GCP Services eligible for Commitments All GCP Customers would benefit from it
3 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation Planned for future release

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...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Right-click ungroup tool

The customer would like a right-click tool whereby an alert can be un-grouped and optionally removed from any associated incident. Second, they want the option to be able to assign the alert to a new incident. In brief: Right click tool: select ...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Planned for future release

Support for Custom S3-Compatible Object Storage Endpoints for Cost Data Ingestion

IBM Apptio Cloudability currently supports ingesting billing and usage data from the native object storage services of the major hyperscalers: Amazon S3 (AWS) Azure Blob Storage Google Cloud Storage Many enterprise customers, however, util...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations Planned for future release

Cloudability Dashboard sharing should create link that preserves the settings of the FILTERS at top of page for 1-click DEEPLINK that can be shared via slack or email or put on wiki or generated programmatically creating URL with filtered argument

Why Useful? - More efficient and sharing of Database with filters selected to help recipient effortlessly see exactly what sendor wants with 1 click of DEEPLINK that retains the filtered settings. If there's a dashboard that has a filter for AWS A...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Planned for future release

Support HTTPd tracing on IBM i

Dear colleagues, our customer runs WAS infrastructure on IBM i and manages Apache HTTPd servers using WAS admin console. We discovered that Instana doesn't have support of IBM i platform for HTTPd tracing: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-obser...
3 months ago in Instana / Tracing Planned for future release

Display All Related Open and Closed Alerts in the Same Incident Centric View

SREs investigating an active incident need a single consolidated view containing all related alerts, regardless of their current status. Many alerts are automatically closed even though they remain relevant for root cause analysis. As a result, SR...
24 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Azure Database Savings Plans

Publicly announced today, this new commitment type offers up to 35% savings across a range of database services. See: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/finopsblog/announcing-savings-plan-for-databases-flexible-savings-for-modern-evolving-wo...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) Planned for future release

Improve Air-Gapped Package Integrity Validation and Download Experience

Air-gapped deployments often involve multiple transfer steps and intermediaries, each introducing potential risks. In real-world environments, packages may be downloaded through slow or unreliable proxies, transferred via USB drives, copied throug...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Self Hosted Planned for future release

Have the ability to add comments / description into business mapping

It makes it easier to find the information about the BM, especially if there are links to other BM.
10 days ago in Cloudability / Other Planned for future release

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