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Capture and expose hourly and daily user metrics and usage for analysis and debugging

Provides visibility into user workload on system and components at a point in time. Can be used to debug observed performance degradation. Can also be used to provide management visibility into overall usage and adoption. Some example metrics:&nbs...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Alert Ownership Locking and Conflict Prevention for Concurrent Users

Introduce an optional alert ownership locking and conflict-prevention mechanism to prevent multiple users from simultaneously taking ownership of the same alert without notification or coordination. Current Behavior During testing, the following b...
2 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted

Add an option to disable workflow approvals for those of us not using the approval workflow.

We do not use the approval workflow in Planning.  In the old version of planning the alert icon on the banner pages showed up but did not display anything.  In the new version the icon is expanded with a description of how may cost objec...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Submitted

Start using VolumeStalledIOCheck as a possible metric to calculate EBS availability (SLO)

To improve accuracy of created SLO rules for this service type, the VolumeStalledIOCheck is one of the possible additional metrics that can help on this case. "This alarm helps you monitor the IO performance of your Amazon EBS volumes. This check ...
12 days ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Snowflake 2.0 DB tags ingestion

Cloudability currently ingests account-level and warehouse-level tags from Snowflake Org 2.0. We would like to request support for ingesting database-level tags as well.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Add a combined VM memory utilization metric to UI widgets that displays VMEM utilization plus Transient Memory as a single effective memory-demand value.

Overview Add a new commodity or derived metric to IBM Turbonomic UI widgets that combines VMEM utilization and Transient Memory into a single value representing the VM’s effective memory demand. Today, the UI displays VMEM utilization and Transien...

Add a Refresh button for each tab to quickly update changes and recalculate

There are two distinct scenarios for this Refresh button idea. The first is for making changes to existing data, like changing the account so it aligns to its related actuals, updating a vendor name, etc. When changes like this are made, it does n...
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Enable OCLI and Composer extract/create commands to append output to an existing file

Currently, when using OCLI or Composer to extract multiple object types, each extract operation requires its own output file. As a result, users must execute multiple extract commands and manage multiple files before performing a subsequent add or...
5 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Provide an option in Orchestration Monitor to display all job run instances within a job stream by default

Within the Orchestration Monitor, when a job has multiple executions due to manual reruns, Recovery Options, or the "Repeat Every" setting, only the most recent instance of the job is displayed in the job stream view. Currently, users must select ...
5 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

Alert Viewer Contextual Menu: Condition Builder Support for Alert Group Membership / Insights Array

Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps (v4.13.1), the Alert Viewer's custom menu items (right-click actions) cannot be dynamically restricted based on whether an alert belongs to a group (i.e., identifying a child alarm versus a standalone alarm). ...
1 day ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Submitted