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Need broader insight into rightsizing opportunities

There are a lot of opportunities to save that Cloudability does not inform users about. Some of them are difficult to find without collecting information, merging data, comparing options. This is the work Cloudability does for EC2, RDS, etc. Why n...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Under review

API Endpoint for Tag & Labels

There are currently API Endpoints for Business Mapping, Business Metrics, Users management, etc, but Tags & Labels can only be actioned via the UI. This means we are unable to mirror the Production and Test environments quickly and systematica...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Planned for future release

Support for Azure Cost (List)

Support for Cost (List) for Azure is important for customer to view and use to report on Effective Savings.
11 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards Under review

Extracting the output of interrogation Native command set for list of devices in a single local file

Dear Team, To clarify my idea,We would like to know if there is a workaround that allows us to execute a set of interrogation native command sets, such as: show configuration | display set | no-more show configuration | display set | count show in...
4 months ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager Planned for future release

Version field for Instances in Cloudability

Multiple tenants requested the OS Version field of the Instances as they will use the below combination of dimensions and metrics to create custom KPI's for reporting. This was already used with our previous tool and the lack of the OS Version inf...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization Future consideration

Integration Enhancement - Group By recommendation vs Individual rightsizing recommendations

Today the customer is not able to use the rightsizing integration with JIRA because it creates individual tickets in JIRA leading to too many tickets that go to the same person or team.  For example, 50 recommendations go to the same team. &n...
26 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) Submitted

We have option to integrate IWA to Cyberark vault for password retrival, we need similar for AKV (Azure Key vault)

We have option to integrate IWA to Cyberark vault for password retrival, we need similar for AKV (Azure Key vault)We run lots of Azure jobs using various plugins and it is important to have Azure key vault (AKV) to maintain password & seamless...
26 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted

Enable the independent definition of all Database Action types

As a Turbo administrator, I need to be able to define Policy for Database suspend, Database reconfigure, and Database delete actions without also configuring Cloud DB scale settings on the same Policy. Currently, Cloud DB scale MUST be configured ...
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

The current databricks plugin allows only basic/static Oauth2.0 authentication

The current databricks plugin allows only basic/static Oauth2.0 authentication.Its is considered a security risk, Like RESTful plugin it need Oauth.20 with refresh token & other authentication options for easy integeration with added security
26 days ago in Workload Automation Submitted

IWA event rules fail or stuck in running sometimes due to various reasons, but there is no alerting solution

IWA event rules fail or stuck in running sometimes due to various reasons, but there is no alerting solutionWe use event rules to monitor everything in the IWA env but in case of event rules having issue then there is not build in mechanism to ale...
26 days ago in Workload Automation Under review