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Surface Azure tenant ID in OOTB dimensions

Request to Surface Azure tenant ID in OOTB dimensions. So we have a way to report using Azure Tenant as a filter.
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Needs more information

Turbonomic support for IBM Cloud Object Storage (On-Premises)

We request Turbonomic to support IBM Cloud Object Storage (On-Premises) as a storage optimization target. We would like to monitor the capacity and the actual usage of the storage and be able to take optimization actions as needed.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Needs more information

Generic Entity Types creation by native OpenTelemetry (OTEL) infrastructure data instead of Otel-Collector Entity

Instana currently supports a variety of entity types—including infrastructure entities (hosts, containers, Java processes) and trace-specific entities (services, endpoints, applications). While the Instana sensors offer powerful application monito...
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 3 Needs more information

Would like to see subfolders in TBM Studio

Having subfolders to organize documents would be helpful because with only one layer the amount of documents makes it hard to sort through and organize.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Needs more information

Show Configuration Changes in Anomaly Reports

Add a feature to track changes in system configurations and show them in anomaly reports. This can work by pulling data about configuration changes (like from billing systems or logs) and marking the dates of those changes in the reports. This way...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Needs more information

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent

OTEL Contrib Collector should be automatically installed via our Agent
9 months ago in Instana / Agent / Infrastructure / Logging / Other Tracers 0 Needs more information

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.

Add security notice configured in Cluster settings to the header of all reports.
24 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

Missing objects deletion

This should still be in effect if polling fails to a device. Currently if polling fails, objects are never deleted.
29 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

Add more information to device status page

When added, last discovered time and duration, object counts (visible/hidden) - currently only some this information is available and all of it is useful when debugging failures and adding new device types. Some is only available with SQL queries ...
29 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Needs more information

vm automation policies when vm state is idle - include actions also against any attached volumes

All public cloud scale events require downtime. Downtime involves stopping any services running on these IaaS instances during an action execution activity. If a vm has a park schedule or maintenance window, then this is the ideal time to resize (...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Needs more information