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Add AWS Neptune Service monitoring

Instana AWS sensor has already good amount AWS services to be monitored and I would like to request to add monitoring support for the AWS Neptune service.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Documentation for custom FOCUS data integration

Hi, There seems be lack of documentation on how FOCUS columns are being mapped to the visualisation in Cloudabillity (please see case TS019672206) Please can you update the documentation so we can use FOCUS data seamlessly.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Help & Training 0 Submitted

Role Visibility By Product

Currently, when assigning a role in Frontdoor, it displays roles from all IBM products, which causes confusion during the assignment process. Ideally, if roles are assigned within Cloudability, it should only show the roles that have permissions f...
9 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 2 Functionality already exists

Linking Published Tables and Standard Tables

We sometimes need to reinject calculated data from the reporting layer back into Standard Tables (e.g. output of metrics OpEx YTD, Charge YTD). Examples: in BOIT, Client wants to apply a reallocation of a calculated YTD Charge of a given BU amongs...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Provide a Concurrent Count of VMs

This will help determine an accurate count of non-ephemeral workloads, which will help with software licensing requirements etc.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Future consideration

Provide Functionality to trigger an Anomaly based on a larger time sample. i.e Month over Month, vs Day over Dat

This helpful as they had a service that was idle for two months and it inadvertently started being used. It took a few days for it to be detected as anomalous behavior. Using a Month over Month time frame, might have triggered an alert earlier.
10 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Future consideration

Adding status metrics for the IBM MQ v9+ object

The sensor for IBM Data Power and the object IBM MQ v9+ supports only Back-End Active Connections and Front-End Active Connections metrics. However it is important to know the status of the object because it has a tendency to shut down when IBM MQ...
10 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

'Turbonomic Parker' role not available in Cloudability Premium

Turbonomic standard software has a user named 'Parker' allowing users to manage start/stop and schedule of their VMs in the parking feature. Parker role only gives them access to this. This 'Parker' role doesn't exist in Cloudability Premium which...

Add more resources in Workload Planning

Cloudability currently supports a limited set of resources for workload planning across all CSPs, restricting customers from gaining comprehensive insights into their workload strategy. Expanding the range of supported services will improve visibi...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Planned for future release

Need performance Disk and SAN data (NPIV and physical ports) from AIX Client and AIX VIOS like we have today with NMON , NJMON utility or e.g. with iostat command from AIX (See uploaded example textfile)

We need to collect permanently disk and san infrastructure because most of the problems came from this environment in the past beside typical cpu,memory, filesystem etc. This integration was included in Tivoli ITCAM or in free tools from IBM like ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Not under consideration