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Add support for C2S (Amazon’s classified Commercial Cloud Services cloud)

All federal intelligence agencies use C2S. In order to provide APM with Turbonomic to these customers, we must support C2S with Turbonomic.
about 4 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1

A new view or option under "Dimensions" that allows Support to right-click and debug affected applications, services, and microservices

Problem Description Who is affected: Support engineers, SREs, and operations teams managing complex application environments. Current process: Status visibility is fragmented across tools.Troubleshooting requires manual data gathering and environm...
over 1 year ago in Concert 0 Under review

Filtering options for recommended types

AWS EBS storage type filtering requirement: Need to exclude SC1 storage type from right-sizing recommendations. SC1 proposals create false savings reports that require manual explanation why not going to SC1. So if we can have a filtering option t...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Future consideration

Need a way to see details of executed actions

We have fully automated load-balancing of VMWare ESX cluster ...ie. Turbonomic is instructing VMWare DRS to move VM around when needed. But there doesn't seems to be a way for us to look at details for executed Move actions. ie. what is the utiliz...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Need a way to export/download the PLAN report in PDF

We are using the PLAN every month and have to send the report to the customer, but currently there is no way to export/download the PLAN report. We end-up using the browser print function to save it to PDF but the formatting is all messy doing it ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Future consideration

Support for GKE Autopilot

Google Cloud customers that utilize GKE AutoCluster will find that IBM Apptio Cloudability does not support IBM FinOps Agent monitoring. Enabling this feature would provide users with important feedback about their infrastructure usage.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Kubecost/Advanced Containers 1 Future consideration

Add Unit of Measure as a Dimension in Cloudability

While Usage Quantity is a metric, the corresponding Unit of Measure if not a dimension that is surfaced in Cloudability. Without Unit of Measure, it is not always possible to tell what is being measure/billed in Usage Quantity (hour, GB, core, etc...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 4 Needs more information

Monitoring Nutanix Kubernetes Platform

We need support for monitoring the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform. Nutanix was named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Not under consideration

Secure Management of Instana Agent Configuration from the Web Console

Proposal: Secure Management of Instana Agent Configuration from the Web Console Currently, certain advanced Instana Agent configurations require modifying the configuration.yaml file directly on the server where the agent is installed. These confi...
3 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration