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Limit splash screens to Admin users

As a platform with a large number of users who are 'consumers', splash screens on the Turbonomic platform often confuse end users who're accessing it, driving a lot of questions and concerns. Can we limit the splash screens (New Version informatio...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Application based smart alerts overview that shows tiggered issues

Hi, As we are implementing Instana to monitor a rather big environment with tons of apps, devs, ops and teams, Smart Alerts seem to be a good way to reduce workload due to the generic nature of the configuration. It is unusable though as it is ATM...
7 months ago in Instana / Alert / Application perspectives 6 Future consideration

Show Metrics for the Number of Active and Closed Web Sessions in Instana Analytics

Instana currently provides visibility into web session data in the “Websites / Page loads” analytics view, but it does not expose metrics to distinguish between active and closed sessions or provide their respective counts. We request that metrics...
7 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Future consideration

Adding Support for importing device configurations from an EMS system that manage non IP-Based Devices

EMS systems can manage group of devices that could not be accessable from ITNCM. These devices are optical or wireless devices (non-IP based) so ITNCM will not be able to access these devices. If IBM can provide a connector to gather device config...
over 1 year ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1

Enable users details like department, business unit from entraID to apportion seat based AI tools usage

AI assistant tools are generally seat based. Since cloudablity can connect to Entra ID post integration, dynamic fetching of user metadata like department, business unit will allow to apportion seat based license cost to respective unit.
2 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability 0 Submitted

Planning Extension Offset Update - Default to Next Month for All Amortization Types

I think it'd more aligned to user expectations if we were able to have the extension offset default to "Next Month" for all amortization types. We use Straight Line Even Periods, and even though the amortization calculation is not impacted by show...
5 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Multi-Tenancy Support in SDWAN Vendors

Many of the customers are asking to access monitoring multi-tenant environments in SD-WAN solutions. Especially Aruba and Velocloud. I know Cisco SDWAN we can support in Viptela however i need to get more Multitenancy feature for supported all ven...
11 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) 1 Future consideration

Add resource id on Anomaly alerts/subscriptions

Idea : Is to add resource id on Anomaly alerts/subscription so that customer's can get an idea of the affected resources just through the subscription alert. While I do understand that link provided in the alert (redirecting to CLDY page) provided...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Clustered columns on Spend Trend Visual in Summary View

Currently: In the Spend Trend visual on the Summary view, totals are only visible when hovering over the bars. This makes it harder to quickly interpret values, especially when different breakdowns are applied. Proposed Improvement: Display total ...
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration