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Pricing adjustments for all clouds

Currently there is a way to input a pricing adjustment for AWS services but not Azure or GCP. It's possible this info is derived another way but the configuration UI is inconsistent.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Add option to add EDP to effective rate

Add option to add EDP to effective rate. This would show a more accurate savings cost.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Support for centralized Azure Hybrid Benefit (centralized AHUB)

Azure came up with Centralized AHUB support for SQL licenses. Similar in concept to CUDs, where the customers can create a pool of licenses and have the SQL instances (SQL databases, managed instances etc ) consume the license from the pool. When ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

In the 'Actions' tab, show the sum for the cost impact column for on-demand costs without factoring in savings plans

There was a change made around the first week of January 2025. A toggle of on-demand versus effective was added.We'd like to see what the on-demand savings are without any savings plan being a factor.Most of the cost impact are showing $0.00.FinOp...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Deletion Action for Long-Unused Virtual Machines (with unused volume deletion)

I believe that generating a deletion action for virtual machines that haven't been used for a long time could lead to more effective cost reduction. Do we have any plans to implement this? While the instances themselves are shut down using the PAR...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Discovery of IIS Workers and WebSphere Instances which does not have any calls for a specific time bound

Detail: Since the inventory we monitor with Instana is very large, we do not know which IIS Worker and / or WebSphere instances are being called or not. We want the IIS Worker and WebSphere instances that does not have any calls are discovered by ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / WAS 2 Not under consideration

View the JVM DB Connection Pool and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the idle DB Connection is below 10%)

I would like to monitor the Connection Pool that connects to the DB in a general JVM. I would also like to request that you add a function that can monitor the connection to the DB in JVM monitoring.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future consideration

Agent starting time in Agent overview

Sometimes we have new agents reporting to an instana backend. In the agent overview we can't see which agents are new because in the list, there is no "started at" column. But the information is hidden behind the status field. We can see it "on mo...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / WAS 0 Not under consideration

Within Turbo I should not only be able to see potential savings but the current cost of a business application

whilst turbo shows the potential savings of each change it also shows the current costs, however when looking at a wider scope like the business application this information is lost, ideally within the business application overview or details page...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

My customer would like to establish a fee structure for SMB.

Background I understand that Turbonomic's target is the users who have large system which is composed over 500 VMs. My customer is considering embedding Turbonomic to their own cloud management service, and they try to sell it to SMB. Issues Curre...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Not under consideration