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Customer Request: Instana SaaS Usage Metering and Cost Forecasting Dashboard

There is a need to provide an Instana SaaS usage metering dashboard and a cost forecasting dashboard,with enhancements requested to reach a comparable level of functionality to what Dynatrace currently provides. Background for the Feature Enhancem...
8 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Add effective rate and 30 day options to rightsize widgets

Current rightsize widgets are limited to 10 day cash values. I don't imagine many Cloudability customers do not have private pricing or reservations. Effective rate is the only useful metric for my organization and it's not an option. It would be ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Planned for future release

Include allocation tag or bm values in rightsize reports

Current rightsizing reports rely heavily on the use of view filters to isolate and identify the workload represented. I've worked for a couple of organizations as a FinOps expert and when I meet with teams it is not to look at one workload at a ti...

Increase the number of services supported for Sustainability metrics

Currently the Sustainability metrics is supporting 3 services from each of the vendors, AWS, Azure and GCP. There are other major services the customers feels need to be considered for the emission metrics. AWS: Apart from EC2, EBS, and RDS, other...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Sustainability Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow Probes to add dynamic custom fields to alerts in Watson AIOps that are visible in the details section.

n Netcool OMNIbus, it was possible to manually create new fields in the database (alerts.status) via insert operations, and then populate them through Probe rules. This allowed operators to enrich events with custom business-relevant data directly...
about 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Watson Runbook Automation (RBA) Email Notification Option

Require the OOTB email notification for success or failure or the status of Runbook automation execution. It helps if the feature is working or not. Otherwise, every time we need to login to the GUI and verify the history of the automation trigger...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Add filtering capabilities to the Activity Menu on the Alerts Information page to allow users to easily refine system and user -generated activity messages by type, source, severity, and time.

On the Alerts Information page, the Activity Menu currently displays all system-generated and user-generated messages in a single, continuous, unfiltered view. As alert activity increases across environments, this consolidated feed becomes difficu...
6 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Full Feature parity b/w GCP & other supported CSPs - Reporting, Rate Optimization, CSA, Data Mapping & Organization, Documentation, Support, Training

Requesting full parity b/w GCP & other supported CSPs across All Cloudability modules .  This would enable GCP Customers to align & scale their mature FinOps operations effectively.  We need GCP capabilities brought to equal stan...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

CSA for GCP Commitments - Extend automated commitment management to GCP Services eligible for Commitments

CSA Enhancement for GCP Commitments, extend automated commitment management to GCP Services eligible for Commitments All GCP Customers would benefit from it
23 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 0 Planned for future release

GCP Cost Data Reporting - Ability to report on TRUE GCP Consumption v/s Google invoiced net costs

In Cloudability, currently there's no way to report on True GCP consumption versus Google invoiced net cost. Credit inclusion/exclusion is ALL or None currently. If included, Customers cannot distinguish between what has been invoiced post migra...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted