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Standard Edition sizing must take into account HPA

The sizing in the documentation and our sizing tools must take into account HPA auto-scaling. We've had environments with customers where the HPA created editional pods to the point where pods are getting evicted. Two things should happen: The HPA...
7 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Condensed Application Perspectives overview for big environments

Hi, While implementing Instana at a major banking IT provider we face the challenge that we need to know the state of 60+ groups of banks in a quick overview. Using APs this is currently not possible. The health state is enough for us to flag grou...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Mask database queries

Hi, We encounter the problem that some database query's may not be visible for everyone.The monitoring is happening on application-side. An Instana agent on the database is not necessary. We have for example a Kubernetes cluster with 10 namespaces...
7 months ago in Instana / Tracing 2 Functionality already exists

Better integration of extended domain entities added by Solutions with native entities

There are some very helpful solution packages in TP that add new entities. However, these often integrate poorly with native entities. For example, we added the Product and Component structure which provides product versions. These add capabilitie...
about 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Solutions and Solutions Library 0 Future consideration

AD groups feature should allow assigning a default view to the group

Recently released AD group integration in Cloudability only allows user to share view with a group. We would want to be able to assign a default view to a group, so any new group member would have a default view assigned scoped to the given group.
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Under review

Ability to disable/enable default Cloudability dimensions

Post introduction of the ATUM* dimensions, we realized that our users see too many options in the dimensions dropdown while creating reports and widgets. Not every Cloudability customer needs all the default dimensions as we also introduce dimensi...
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Change units in downloaded csv file with recommendations

The units appear in KB and the client requests GB. It is a much more manageable and realistic unit given the current sizes.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Planned for future release

Ability to extract and subscribe to Commitments based on Account name or ID

Data extracts do not contain account name. No way to subscribe to expirations based on account name. would be helpful to have this data available so its easier to manage.
almost 2 years ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Support more than one viewing currency per environment

Today, for multi-currency configuration, Cloudability can only support one specified currency per environment. Many of our customers are global entities and have a need to display cloud cost data in the local currency of their sites or offices. Fo...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

customize the email font or attach an image using email notification connector

customize the email font or attach an image using email notification connector
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review