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enable 'resize when powered off' to work with public cloud vm's

Anyone with public cloud vm's where they want to create an automation policy that executes only when a said vm is idle
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Planned for future release

Improvement on Totals

Opened Ticket#TS018957744 and was told the ability to have BI Reports give Total for Jan-Dec (with months showing) wasn't available currently. Not having this feature leads to a download into Excel. Option should be a basic feature.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Planned for future release

Ability to color-code calculated metrics

Customer would like the ability to replicate 'Budget Variance Details' from Plans. Currently, we can use a calculated metric to recreate the Variance, however, customer likes that Plans color codes the variance based on increase/decrease. Ability ...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Chart formatting capabilities

Formatting options to include Title font sizes, bolding, colors. Ability to change contract for Cldy. Bar/line color options so we can create widgets that always have AWS in Blue and Azure in Red for example.
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 1 Planned for future release

BI - Reuse of colors/Edit colors

Due to reuse of colors, can’t identify legend, due to color duplication on charts. Color palettes need to editable, as when trying to stay consistent, say with a given Vendor on multiple charts, the color should remain consistent, not vary each time.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Bring Cloudability up to the levels of its competitors in sustainabiity reporting

I have reviewed the carbon reporting capabilities of Cloudability and realised that there are some huge gaps when compared to market leaders such as Sopht, Greenpixie, Tailpipe and even Cloud Carbon Footprint. Cloudability doesn't seem to report o...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Planned for future release

Policy Toggles to enable/disable a specific policy

Use case 1: Auto imported policies are not needed and are interfering with user defined policies. Enable a policy toggle to disable it at the policy level in Turbonomic so that no resources are affected by it. A bulk selection and disable menu ava...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Sort and Group Policy List

When viewing any particular entity or scope, the list of policies on the Policy tab is a randomly sorted randomly named list. Since a majority of these policies are automatically being generated by Turbonomic based on cloud provider constraints, i...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Planned for future release

Import DRS Virtual Machine Options settings

Today, Turbo imports DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules. These rules help customers keep VMs together, apart, or only on certain hosts. Some customers (Facebook, NBC) use DRS's Virtual Machine Options to override DRS automation. This settings ar...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Planned for future release

Forecasting Capability in Apptio BI reports

Ability to add forecast widgets based on the set budgets. To understand the estimated future cost for a particular workload (compute, Storage etc).
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 2 Planned for future release