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Enable the view of Plan name from IBM CSV billing file

We are looking to get the data about the instance type / family / Category to create reports to track GPU usage in IBMC via Cloudability.As much as I looked the Plan name contain this data that will enable us to create that report. Because this vi...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Limit Exposure of Business Mappings

Some Business Mapping steps are intermediary and are used to create data subsets that are included or excluded in other final business mappings to help with logic challenges or re-usabiity (include vs anti). These intermediary Business Mappings id...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Add Alert Channels as scope option in Maintenance Windows

Context: Instana's Maintenance Windows feature offers, at the moment, either Application Perspective, Selected Entities (Dynamic Focus) or Synthetic Tests as scopes in order to generate silence windows. Problem: Maintenance Windows is the only fea...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Support a broader range of Cloudwatch GPU metric configurations for bringing to Cloudability

Customers use their collected Cloudwatch metrics for their own purposes in addition to making them available to Cloudability. It's useful to collect individual GPU metrics for each instance so that they can see if there are any idle GPUs (rather t...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Allow more flexibility on alert messages

We would like to customize the subject of email alerts sent, so that the users can at a glance determine what is going wrong. This could be done by adding an option for a custom title in the Alert parameters.
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Reduce granularity of adaptive threshold to 2-3 mins for smart alerts

We need granularity up to 2 or 3 mins. Our MTTD (Mean Time To Detect) goal is less than 10 minutes. For us to achieve this, alert should be triggered to us within 2 mins. Reason is to check for minimum 2 consecutive violations before alert is trig...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert 4 Future consideration

Creating views on the fly

As a FinOps, I would like to be able to dynamically create a new view for each existing statement in my Business mapping. It's currently quite painful to have to create views manually. Creating a view every time the BM statement is = "True" would ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 4 Future consideration

DB2 Alerting and Monitoring for Active Databases and Instance.

Hi Team!I can´t find Alerting to monitor if a Database is active or if an Instance is Up.Acording to DB2 documentation MON_GET_INSTANCE table function we need the follow elements to proper monitor Instance and Databases. SQLM_DB2_ACTIVE 0 The data...
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Ability to pull in credits from the Vendor

We've switched from CloudHealth to Cloudability because of some capabilities. However one thing we lost in the swap on platforms is the ability to show credits from the vendor. CloudHealth ingests this from AWS and Azure automatically, It would be...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Selectively reprocess data for only specific Business Mappings and date ranges.

Currently, IBM Cloudability lacks the ability to selectively reprocess data for specific business mappings. When a business rule changes for one business dimension, users are forced to reprocess all mappings, even those that were previously accura...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration