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GCP Cost Data Reporting - Ability to exclude or include Google Credits by Credit Name, Type & ID

Currently, Credit inclusion/exclusion is ALL or None. Need the ability to exclude or include Google Credits, by Credit Name, Type & ID, in case of various Migration Credits, Promotional Credits, Billing Adjustments This implementation would he...
23 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Submitted

Enable Application-Level Message Batching in SevOne Data Publisher (SDP) for Array-of-JSON Format

Problem Statement Current Behavior: SevOne Data Publisher (SDP) currently sends one data point per message to Kafka/Pulsar/Event Hub publishers. While Kafka has protocol-level batching for network efficiency, consumers still receive individual JSO...
5 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) Future consideration

Concert Workflows: Upgrade Telnet integration to allow actions for connecting to CISCO IOS switches

CISCO IOS requires certain actions from Telnet in order to connect and run commands that aren't supported by Concert Workflows, this enhancement is to expand it such to do that, such as prompting keys and resetting states.
8 months ago in Concert Workflows Planned for future release

Capability for adding Targets in Google Cloud Platform - CloudSQL/BigTable etc

In the current versions of Turbonomic, there is no capability for finding Google Cloud Platform - Cloud SQL and other databases as targets. Its a high time as many of our customers are adopting to GCP.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS Future consideration

Create a shared folder space for multi-tenant reports.

There is an existing problem in SevOne DI versions >7.0 with multi-tenant reports in Global folders. If reports are placed here they can be seen by all customers across all tenancies. This can obviously cause confidentiality issues. The only ot...
12 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) Future consideration

Request for Trace Log Functionality

With the current product capabilities, it is not possible to capture logs of user actions. Since operation logs for various configuration changes are not available, it is impossible to identify, for example, who created a business mapping or when ...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Other Future consideration

Add OR operator in Views/Filters accross two dissimilar dimensions

I want to have the possibility to filter on severals dimensions but sometimes I need an operator "OR" and not only "AND" Example : Dimension1 contains "CBA" OR Dimension2 contains "ABC" Today it's only possible to apply a "AND" like Dimension1 con...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Views Future consideration

Improve Geography view to allow view by states

By allowing the customer to have region/provinces as a deep view, they can use it as data for marketing or increase the MTTR by mapping regional providers/services/laws affecting the availability of their services. Right now, the customers is expo...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface Future consideration

Account for hosts in maintenance mode in Plan function

I have a group of VMs spread out across multiple racks-- let's say 100 providers. During host consolidation efforts, we've placed several of the hosts across the racks in maintenance mode --let's say we put 20 in maintenance mode. When you scope t...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Future consideration

Named Custom Date Ranges for Reporting

Today, users can choose from standard absolute and relative date ranges (Last 7 Days, Month to Date, custom start/end dates, etc.) within each widget's or the UI's Time period selector. This is powerful but introduces friction for organizations wh...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review