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Add Usage Family/Usage type to Resource Inventory

We request adding a field of Usage Family or Usage type to each line in the resource inventory in order to be able to separate any storage cost for example from actual instance usage. This can help especially when constructing reports via API call...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Planned for future release

Add Splunk APM as a native APM Target

Requesting target support for Splunk APM (SignalFX) for application infrastructure performance monitoring on AWS. During my customer's Turbo rollout, they came to realize that actions are being generated without APM insight that could be critical ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

SLO Horizontal Scalability with Datadog

Datadog's 2024 revenue was 2.6B USD against 1.6B USD from Dynatrace. It's clear Datadog's growth and the relevance. IBM advertise the SLO horizontal scaling which is a great way to deliver true elasticity, but today we only work with Instana and D...

Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective

Have Turbonomic pull data from Infrastructure of Instana not Application Perspective. Since Instana views active VMs differently in the application perspective not all VMs show up and then does not populate to Turbonomic. But in Instana Infrastruc...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Not under consideration

Provide Turbonomic Database Integration for Db2 on LUW

Turbonomics today has the capability to observe database performance and provide tuning recommendations for SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle. This functionality should be extended to include Db2 for LUW.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Planned for future release

Azure and GCP utilization metrics needed in Reports in Dashboard in Cldy and ABI

Many customers have a need for utilisation metrics for Azure and GCP in Cldy - its been called out as a feature deficit for years. Its needed for customers so they can dive deep into longer term (like over a year) metrics util on instances to see ...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards / Resource Inventory 1 Not under consideration

Add Resource Name to GCP Resource Inventory (Compute Engine)

Resource Name is needed to ensure clear identification of GCE resources in Cloudability Resource ID which comes from GCP billing data is not clear enough (it looks more like a path and it doesn't contain the resource name) Resource Name field is c...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release

Add ‘last seen’ date to Resource Inventory.

Problem:Right now the resource inventory has the resource state, but for terminated resources there is no way to tell when the resource was terminated. Request:To provide visibility into what time frame the resource inventory data represents and w...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Future consideration

Disk usage metric for EBS and GPD

Currently we cannot look at the disk usage data for EBS and GPD, most of the disks are over provisioned and we pay for what we allocate than what we use. Cloudability is showing these metrics for RDS in AWS, why cant we do it for EBS and GPD with ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release