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Provide 'One Click' Report/View for Basic/Advanced Recommendations

All for a Single Pane to view both Cloudability Basic and Cloudability Advanced Recommendations. 
12 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Provice IDLE Metric For S3/BLOB

Provide IDLE Metric for S3/Blob based on No growth, No Writes, No Gets, No Transtion
12 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Option to stop log ingestion when the purchased Log Management volume is reached

Provide customers with an optional configurable control to automatically stop or pause additional log ingestion once their purchased Instana log volume entitlement has been reached. Today, unexpected increases in log generation can cause customers...
13 days ago in Instana / Logging 0 Submitted

Support for Custom S3-Compatible Object Storage Endpoints for Cost Data Ingestion

IBM Apptio Cloudability currently supports ingesting billing and usage data from the native object storage services of the major hyperscalers: Amazon S3 (AWS) Azure Blob Storage Google Cloud Storage Many enterprise customers, however, util...

AIOPs alert viewer to provide distinct and meaningful visualization for every individual group of alerts in case of super grouped alerts

Currently when AIOPs does super grouping and present all those super grouped alerts ( where individual group of alerts may come from scope/topology/temp policies ) in AIOPs alert viewer , all alerts ( irrespective of which individual group/s they ...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Under review

Cloudability Dashboards & Reports: Calendar-Aligned Rolling Date Ranges and Visualisation Granularity Control

TL;DR Cloudability's date picker offers a Rolling option on custom ranges, but it operates at day level only — there is no way to define a rolling range that shifts by a complete calendar month, quarter, or half. Named calendar-aligned presets sto...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Enable granular Datadog cost ingestion and reporting within Cloudability to provide detailed visibility into Datadog spend, usage drivers, and cost allocation.

Customers with significant Datadog investments currently have limited visibility into Datadog costs within Cloudability. While overall spend can be tracked, the lack of granular cost and usage data prevents customers from analyzing Datadog expendi...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Future consideration

OpenStack support for Turbo backend

Due to the steep price increase, many customers are abandoning VMware, and one of the few existing alternatives is OpenStack.One of them is Telefónica, which is already implementing its global "ZeroVMware" project.As of today, it is not possible t...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Standard Out of the Box field for "Usage Family Category"

There are a plethora of Usage Family values in Cloudability which is awesome -- this really provides a strong foundation for our customers to build on. Per the help center doc (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloudability-commercial/cloudability-enter...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Sort Users and User Groups Alphabetically and Add Search Functionality in "Assign Owner" and "Assign User Group" Menus

We are requesting an enhancement to the Assign Owner and Assign User Group functionality in Alert Viewer. Currently, when users right-click an alert and select Assign Owner or Assign User Group, the displayed list of users and user groups is not s...
about 2 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0