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DNS Configuration Validator / Checker

Provide DNS configuration validation that would show a report highlighting potential issues with their account by severity (e.g., alias records pointing at non-existent records, non-traffic steered CNAMEs with low TTLs, etc.).
4 months ago in NS1 Connect / DNS Insights 0 Under review

Select only performance actions that improve application performance while reducing cost

Some performance improvement actions increase costs, but others improve performance while lowering costs. I would like a way to select only the performance actions that improve performance while providing cost savings. Currently there's no way to ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Needs more information

Clone Filter Chain to another record, regardless of type

Copy filter chain configuration to a different type of DNS record.
4 months ago in NS1 Connect / Traffic steering 0 Under review

Edit or Clone existing report

Add the ability to edit or clone a report in Data Sets. This can help with duplicating data sets for different zones/records, without the process of creating a new report each time.
4 months ago in NS1 Connect / DNS Insights 0 Under review

Add support for SSL Communication between the scheduler and DB for Oracle Databases at 10.2.x

Our company's Security requirements state that all communication should now be encrypted. We are starting a project to upgrade our IWS Scheduling system to 10.2.7, but as we are using AWS RDS Oracle database, we have found that we cannot encrypt t...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Under review

Enable personalization for TargetProcess views/reports without requiring ownership.

Idea: Enable personalization for TargetProcess views/reports without requiring ownership. Problem: Currently, users clone admin-managed views to customize columns, causing duplication and clutter. Capability Needed: Allow users to personalize view...
11 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Future consideration

Enable users to customize which tags and business dimensions are returned in Anomaly Detection API endpoint results to improve reporting relevance and usability.

The Anomaly Detection API currently returns a predefined set of tags and business dimensions with anomaly results. While helpful, users cannot customize which specific tags and BMs are included in the reports, and the information received in the a...
11 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Under review

Maintenance Window needs to be added to Data Insight

As functionality begins to shift away from the NMS to Data Insight, the current state of Data Insight has highlighted the need for the Maintenance Window functionality to also move. For Delta the problem presents itself because multiple user teams...
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

Instana kubernetes container memory monitoring improvement

What is your recommendation for monitoring memory usage for kubernetes pods/containers? So far we are using this in Instana: Kubernetes -> Container -> Memory Usage. (Prefer this as compared to pods because sidecars can get in the way) The p...
about 4 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 5 Not under consideration

Retain user filters and formatting when production refreshes

When Production updates, filters, column pickers etc are rest to default. This is resulted in a bad experience for our users, they lose the focus on the data they were analyzing. In Demand Planning we collect data from thousands of users and this ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted