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Enable granular Datadog cost ingestion and reporting within Cloudability to provide detailed visibility into Datadog spend, usage drivers, and cost allocation.

Customers with significant Datadog investments currently have limited visibility into Datadog costs within Cloudability. While overall spend can be tracked, the lack of granular cost and usage data prevents customers from analyzing Datadog expendi...
15 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Persist Horizontal Pod Scaling in GitOps/Github

when i take horizaontal pod scaling actions with Turbonomic in a K8s environment, i need to be able to Persist Horizontal Pod Scaling configs in GitOps/Github to avoid overwriting or drifts in the configs
about 6 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) Submitted

Support Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025

I open a case with IBM about not seeing information on instana from my Hyper-V they say that Only SUpports WIndows 2019. So Please add official support for Microsoft Hyper-V running on Windows Server 2025 in the Instana Windows Hyper-V sensor.
about 6 hours ago in Instana / Sensor Submitted

Make Discovery Status Visible After Updating Credentials for Azure

While updating credentials (App registration details/Client secret value) for our Azure tenant, we are unable to manually rediscover Azure targets. At least, that's what it appears to be happening when you attempt to click on the ellipses next to ...
about 6 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Submitted

Preserve First Detection Timestamp and Mitigate Historical Spike Bias in Anomaly Detection

Currently, Cloudability’s anomaly detection algorithm re-evaluates and regenerates anomalies for the previous seven days each time it runs. As a result, anomalies identified earlier may change or disappear over time as new cost data becomes availa...
about 7 hours ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection Submitted

Alert Webhook "sent" verification

My customer had an incident where they did not think they were receiving Webhooks from SevOne trap Alerts in their PagerDuty system. In the end, the issue was a disabled usergroup in PagerDuty that was causing the issue and "hiding" the webhooks i...
about 11 hours ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Reasonable default TCP read timeout for IBM MQ Java

Currently on Linux, my understanding is that IBM MQ Java applications runs with a default TCP read timeout of unlimited. This can lead to certain scenarios where a Java IBM MQ thread can hang indefinitely on a TCP socket read. The current workarou...
about 10 hours ago in Instana / MQ Submitted

Enhancing Instana Synthetic Monitoring with Latency-Based Smart Alerts

Currently, Instana Synthetic Tests provide smart alerts primarily based on execution status (success/failure). While this is valuable, it limits the ability to proactively detect performance degradation that occurs before failures. We propose exte...
about 11 hours ago in Instana / Synthetic Submitted

Integrating Azure's ManagedIdentityCredential into the "Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage plug-in" authentication flow

Our InfoSec policy restricting the use of Client Secrets and the operational constraints preventing you from modifying your existing Managed Identity configuration. Because the Workload Automation Azure Storage plugin currently only supports stand...
about 13 hours ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Parking features for ROKS environment with Turbonomic

Related to the idea https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TURBO-I-1477, a client is looking for ROKS environment support with Turbonomic, in this case, the parking features. Currently, they have a couple of ROKS clusters in IBM Cloud that they would like to...
about 15 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking Submitted