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Enable more flexible and customizable anomaly alerting to reduce noise and improve relevance for cost monitoring teams.

Enhance anomaly detection to allow alerts triggered by a percentage (%) threshold to also require a minimum dollar ($) value, ensuring alerts are only sent when the anomaly exceeds a meaningful cost impact and reducing low‑value notification noise.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Submitted

Make Variance Alert Threshold Values More intuitive

At present, the threshold values for alerts are set as an exceedance value versus a baseline. It would be more intuitive if the threshold was set as a percentage of the baseline instead. To illustrate this, if I want to configure an alert that tri...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Planned for future release

Allow editing the process on a previously configured Custom Field

Currently, when you first create a custom field, you are able to associate it with more than one Process.  However, once created, you cannot go back and add a custom field to an additional process, forcing the user to duplicate the work. &nbs...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Submitted

Enhancement Request: Support Azure List Cost Across All Services

Currently, List Cost for Azure is available only for a limited number of services, primarily Compute and a few services within the Database category. For these services, we are able to calculate Savings = List Cost − Total Cost. However, for most ...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Submitted

Tag creation and deletion in Turbonomic should take effect immediately, without waiting for the next broadcast cycle

When a user creates or deletes a tag within Turbonomic, the change does not take effect immediately. Instead, the tag is only applied to — or removed from — the entity after the next broadcast cycle completes, which can take 10 minutes or more. Ta...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Increase the maximum viewable timespan; instead of a 30 day maximum make it at least 3 months

When troubleshooting trending problems, such as a slow memory leak or slow increase in resource usage, 30 days is often inadequate. Having to open multiple tabs for different 30 day increments is also insufficient as it complicates trend awareness...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Disable cloud-init on NMS OVA images.

The last certified SevOne NMS OVA version was 6.8.0. Since cloud-init was introduced, we have been unable to certify newer versions, including 7.0.1, 7.2.0, and 8.1.0. The cloud-init implementation prevented reliable VM network configuration durin...
about 2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Under review

Add application level tracing and service call for Unleash

We have integrated our Unleash feature management platform into an OKE (Oracle Kubernetes Engine) cluster with the Instana agent deployed, but while infrastructure monitoring is working as expected, we have never received any application service c...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Data Excel sheet attachment alongside PDF for Subscribe feature

To send detailed file for visibility, when configuring the subscribe feature there is only one attachment option which is to attach a copy of the report as PDF, what if we want to send detailed data/table for the receiver to check and investigate?...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

Subscribe groups for single run action

It will help run multiple subscribe in one click, normally users need to create single subscribe instance for each configuration (configured filters, configured options, different reports to different users... etc.) however when running the subscr...
about 2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted