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Plot historical percentile values in "Prove It" UI when actions are taken

Today, using VM resize actions as an example, we only show the percentile value based on the current capacity of the resource. When customers take an action to either resize up or resize down to bring the percentile back into its desired state, th...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Future consideration

Anomaly Alert Digest & Grouping

We're currently using Cloudability Anomaly Alerts, and each detected anomaly triggers its own individual notification. This can result in a large number of alerts in a short period of time. Is it possible to configure Cloudability to send a consol...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection Under review

To be able to support DB2Connect

Get metrics (and traces if possible) from DB2Connect.
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 Future consideration

Asset Class in Summary Tab

Currently asset class column is only part of Asset tab, so dropdown values will be shown only in Asset tab. You can use Project and Description to help identify the assets but not all assets have a Project ID or a unique description. Could this be...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Real-Time AI-Powered Application Performance and Resource Optimization Dashboard with Predictive Capacity Planning for IBM Turbonomic ARM

I propose adding a Real-Time AI-Powered Application Performance and Resource Optimization Dashboard with Predictive Capacity Planning to IBM Turbonomic ARM to help organizations gain deeper visibility into application performance, infrastructure u...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases Submitted

Add support for Cisco SDA (Software Defined Access)

Fidelity is not using ACI but rather SDA. They would like to be able to monitor SDA
6 months ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) Under review

Disable Unused Sensor Discovery in Instana for z/OS to Reduce TFP CPU Cost

Instana for z/OS currently performs unconditional sensor discovery for all supported technologies, even when customers only use a small, well‑defined subset (e.g., WebSphere and Java only). Under IBM Z Tailored Fit Pricing (TFP), any avoidable CPU...
6 months ago in Instana / Agent / IBM Z Future consideration

Dashboard: Add a widget option with a text table

It's possible to add a harcoded table to the text widget, however, in order to add/remove row a column, you need to hardcode another table. It would be useful to have the option of the ready table where you can add the text alongside with the text...
over 2 years ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) Under review

SevOne Cisco ACI Solution should write ACI Faults to the Database for Baselining

Currently today the Cisco ACI solution is able to visualize the Fault Messages that are available from the APIC and the POD but is not written to the database. This means that users of the solution can see what is available in real time but can no...
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Software Defined Networking (SDN) Not under consideration

Organize validation rules

When having a lot of validation rules, the list becomes quite chaotic and it is difficult to find the correct validation rule when a user receives a validation error message. Some proposed improvements: * Show the validation rule id in the list....
over 4 years ago in Targetprocess / Other Future consideration