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Increase max Metrics available on a Cloudability report and Dashboard.

Today, our customers are limited to a maximum of 10 Metrics for Cloudability reports. Many of our customers are performing ad-hoc analysis that requires more context than 10 Metrics provides. We currently support 15 Metrics in Apptio BI reports. S...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

see all the resources in Cloudability which are available in Oracle Cost Estimator.

Only a small part of the Oracle resources available in the Oracle Cost Estimator can be selected in Apptio Workload Planning. Customer wants to see all the resources in Cloudability which are available in Oracle Cost Estimator. For example, Oracle...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 0 Submitted

Enable Dashboard Creation and Management via API in Cloudability

Enable customers to create, configure, and manage Cloudability dashboards programmatically through APIs. This capability would allow API-first customers to automate dashboard creation and integrate Cloudability reporting into their existing workfl...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Support for running Instana OTel collector as non privileged user on Kubernetes

There are the following restrictions on Kubernetes for running the Instana OTel collector: Deployment with an operator or Helm chart, but with the following restrictions: Pods with: hostNetwork: true, hostPID: true, privileged: true, hostPath mo...
3 months ago in Instana / OpenTelemetry 1 Under review

Need an option to exclude certain GCP projects/Azure Resource Group at an org level as a policy for rightsizing.

Need an option to exclude certain GCP projects/Azure Resource Group at an org level as a policy for rightsizing. For example, let's say you have a project or resource group with a VM that is vendor specification. Even if it's underutilized accordi...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 2 Needs more information

put a account id/account name field in commitment portfolio

This would be useful if you manage more then one cloud account, it would allow us to easily see what accounts are utalising their commitments to the fullest extend and what arent

Include Vendor dimension in filter

Cloudability multi-cloud users who are managing cost anomalies can benefit having the Vendor dimension included in the filter. Aside from toggling the column header by servicem there is currently no way in the console to display by vendor.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

iSeries servers availability monitoring

iSeries servers are currently monitored remotely via the agent. However, we need to ensure that events are triggered in in case of below scenario.1. Server down2. Password expired3. Connectivity lost between iSeries to Agent
over 1 year ago in Instana / IBM i 3 Planned for future release

Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Recommending the ideal configuration based on demand "forecasts".

Currently, Turbonomic actions can only be generated based on historical statistical data. However, we would like to receive recommendations for optimal configuration in advance, anticipating events such as the annual busy season that will occur ne...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release