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File watcher job that can monitor cloud storage like Azure blobs and S3 buckets

We have manu business teams migrating from traditional file stores using DFS / SMB to Azure blobs and AWS S3 buckets. They would still like the ability to run jobs based on file creation or other events in these new storage types.
6 months ago in Workload Automation 0

Failed to detect Integration Node failure

There is no way to detect Integration Node failure using either built-in or custom metrics in EVENT. The only way is to use "system rules - offline event detection" to trigger event right after Integration Node failure. However, several issues wit...
6 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB 1

Dropwizard: log host agent id to identify slow processing or network congestion in instana module acceptor for dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence'

We are on-premise with LTS-R 293. Monitoring Instana data ingestion we found it handy to log source host or agent id along with dropwizard metric 'out-of-order-sequence' to identify poassible root. We have been told these out-of-order-sequence dat...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Larger Time Frame for Rightsizing Recommendations

It would be helpful if users could change the timeframe of rightsizing recommendations. We have a user that has Finxact views and needs to pull 13 months of Cloudability rightsizing recommendations, but the max timeframe is 30 days, but they need ...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Needs more information

Need ability to customize the temp directory used by ITM product

Currently as required by some of the OS hardening best practices, the native /tmp partition of the OS is required to me mounted as 'NOEXEC' . With this set in place, tacmd update Agent commands, nor installs work on a clean system. It is not possi...
over 1 year ago in ITM/IBM APM 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to create custom dimensions against the hour field in either the cost and usage data or utilisation data

This is useful to have instance scheduling dashboards and drive optimisations for when cloud services are running. this can also be useful to determine at a low level when an anomaly occurs
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

account level budgeting in tool and associated alerts

the ability to set a budget against an account id business dimension to then be tracked against account spend and create alerts
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Functionality already exists

Recommendation age to track how long it has been around

this would be good to track age of a recommendation and enable the prioritisation of aged recommendations
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

make available for report and report subscription

If the anomaly detection data could be made available for enhanced reporting to report with tags as well as report subscriptions
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Enhanced forecast - make the other category grouping optional

We have been using the new forecasting tool but when we try to get a more detailed forecast beyond say account id to include service name to see drivers but this exceeds the row limit and then other data is lumped into an other category where we c...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 3