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Ability to disable/enable default Cloudability dimensions

Post introduction of the ATUM* dimensions, we realized that our users see too many options in the dimensions dropdown while creating reports and widgets. Not every Cloudability customer needs all the default dimensions as we also introduce dimensi...
35 minutes ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Non-root installation of Instana agent

By installing the agent as a non-root user, the Instana administrator has the ability to stop, start, or reconfigure the agent without having to manage or request access as the root user. This process can sometimes take up to 24 hours to grant acc...
about 7 hours ago in Instana / Agent 0 Submitted

Incorporate Calendar Month in Custom Formula Calculated Metric

Calculated Metrics are being used to define the budget for a given month. We take a value and multiply it by the number of days in the month. We would like to be able to configure a calculated metric to be able to dynamically determine the number ...
about 12 hours ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Audit logging capabilities for TEP Admin activities

The current Audit trail we see is EIB Change log which gives information on insert/delete/update /add but doesnt give a detailed picture about what exactly was changed and by whom on edits/deletes of situation ,workspace, policy, MSL, user adminis...
about 13 hours ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Submitted

Add information to Vendor Credential page explaining reason for advanced credentials

Currently we do not see any official documentation from IBM about what features are impacted by what we call Advanced Credentialling. It would be very helpful to add a text box in the application UI somewhere in the credentialling page explaining ...
about 16 hours ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Confusing risk description in Actions

The column Risk description when a file of actions over container specs is exported, shows a mixture of different actions. It's a sum of potential actions but there is no direct correlation between an action and the description that appears in the...
about 16 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Actions excel downloaded is missing the word "limit" on the Impacted commodity column

List of exported actions for workload controller entities lists 'Limit' resize commodities as only VCPU and VMEM. It is expected VMEM Limit /VCPU Limit instead of just VMEM/VCPU. Related to the case TS019321209.
about 17 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Ability to distinguish Service/Endpints with same name from different clusters

We have setup alerts to monitor complete drop in calls for Service & Endpoints. However, we have the same applicaiton (NOI) installed for two separate environments i.e. clusters (e.g. QA & PROD); the services and endpoints have same name e...
about 17 hours ago in Instana / Kubernetes 0 Submitted

feature Budgets & Forecasting - remove Taxes on "Actual Cost"

When we forecasting, the actual cost brings taxes influencing all the cost values and forecasting itself. Our proposal is to remove taxes from this exercise
about 18 hours ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Attaching Custom Payloads on Monitoring Issues

Attaching Custom Payloads on Monitoring Issues Based on the case TS019228912, IBM stated that the custom payloads can be only attached for "Issues and Incidents" type of events but not possible for "Monitoring Issues". Therefore, IsBank would be a...
about 18 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted