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Ability to set up/receive Budget Alerts

The ability to set up and receive budget alert emails is not enabled in the Gov Cldy version. It would be beneficial to be able to set up alerts to compare actual spending to a defined budget/forecast. Would it be possible to make the budget alert...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 0 Submitted

Unitary tagging

On the tagging tab on the traces, it should be helpful to separate the tags for a better trace monitoring
2 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

Update the Workstation definition during manual switchmgr

Whenever you run a switchmgr to move the MDM from one server to the other, it should automatically update the workstation definitions. This is already done during an automatic failover, just not a manual one.
3 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Database Server Max Observation Period set to 90 days

We have Max Observation Period of 90 days for Virtual Machine and Volume. We are expecting the same max 90 days observation period for Database Server too. Application Team wants to see the utilization through 90 days to decide on the scaling reco...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Submitted

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...
3 days ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Submitted

Request for Q Replication Monitoring Support in Instana

Recently, I have been researching and testing Q Replication (QREP). My understanding is that Instana currently does not provide direct support for QREP. However, I believe it would be very helpful if information about the internal state of Q Captu...
3 days ago in Instana / DB2 0 Submitted

Rightsizing for Redshift Serverless

Hi, Currently, it seems Redshift rightsizing recommendation doesn't applicable on Redshift Serverless instances, as I don't see any listed within in our env. Is there any plan to enhance/expand the rightsizing recommendation to Redshift Serverless?
3 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Add Turbo support to the IBM FinOps agent used for Cloudability and Kubecost

Currently customers have to install 2 agents from IBM to use all of the available FinOps tools. Kubecost and Cloudability have already combined their agents into the IBM FinOps agent. Customers would like to include the Turbonomic needs into the s...

Include Location as a field that's available in the Filters

We are currently unable to filter by location and that is something that the State of Massachusetts cares about.
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Parity between data sources from CSPs

Cloudability does provide the same dimensions across AWS/Azure/GCP, and there should be parity. For example- Subscription ID and Reservation ID are available for AWS, but not GCP.
4 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted