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Customer would like to request the ability to leave comments in the Anomaly Detection screen, similar to the functionality available in the Rightsizing ROI screen.

In some cases, they need to record the analysis process or results, and assign follow-up actions to specific team members. Since not all users utilize tools like Jira or ServiceNow, having a way to manage such tasks directly within Cloudability wo...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection Future consideration

Define which entities can be added from main "add button" in left menu

I would like to be able to narrow down the list of entities that can be created from the add button in the left menu of Targetprocess. For instance we don't want to let users create time records from this menu, because they should only be created ...
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Navigation/Menus Future consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Not under consideration

Update BIOS in OVA distribution from legacy BIOS to EUFI

Current BIOS in Rocky Linux OVA is legacy BIOS. Customer is requesting an EUFI BIOS image.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) Future consideration

Ability to distinguish Service/Endpints with same name from different clusters

We have setup alerts to monitor complete drop in calls for Service & Endpoints. However, we have the same applicaiton (NOI) installed for two separate environments i.e. clusters (e.g. QA & PROD); the services and endpoints have same name e...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes Functionality already exists

Probable Cause UI

Starting from version 4.7, the incident view was redesigned from a left-side panel to horizontal tabs starting from version 4.7. In the current layout (see screenshot), when multiple alerts have similar titles, users need to hover over the tab and...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps Planned for future release

Provide Turbonomic Database Integration for Db2 on LUW

Turbonomics today has the capability to observe database performance and provide tuning recommendations for SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle. This functionality should be extended to include Db2 for LUW.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases Planned for future release

Allow constraints based on the $$ savings of an action

It's helpful to have a special workflow for actions that save more money, so they get a different automation-schedule or attention or priority. The Turbonomic 'Action Center' lets you filter actions by savings but doesn't start a new process. To m...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Future consideration

Make Object Types Searchable by OID or indicator name

Right now if someone comes to me and asks me to enable crasSVCNumSessions / .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.392.1.3.35 it's kind of a nightmare. Under Object Types I cannot search by OID or via the indicator type "crasSVCNumSessions". The best I can currently do...
about 2 years ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration Future consideration

Support "Always On" metrics for SQL Server Standard version

We were informed through case TS022822099 that the “Always On” metrics supported by the monitoring agent ITCAM for Microsoft Applications: SQL Server (also known as the KOQ agent) apply exclusively to the "Enterprise" edition of Microsoft SQL Serv...
3 months ago in ITM/IBM APM Submitted