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Option to change the date format in the tool from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY.

Yorkshire Building Society mentioned that it would be simpler for them, if there was an option to choose/customize date format in the tool from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY to match the format being used in their organization.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration

Alignment of IBM MQ Queue Visibility Between Instana Applications and Infrastructure for z/OS Environments

This enhancement is essential to enable true end-to-end observability across IBM Z environments within Instana by ensuring consistent and correlated visibility of MQ queues across both Applications and Infrastructure views. Currently, MQ queues ar...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 1

Instana OCP agent/K8 Sensor support for clinet-facing Listeners use of SASL_SSL for IBM Concert Operate Kafka Lag data collection.

Currently instana agent/K8Sensor supports clinet-facing listeners does not support SASL_SSL to pull the consumer group lag data from IBM concert Operate Kafa. We need to add this feature so that we can monitor and view the lag data.
2 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Under review

Filter rightsizing recommendations by lease type

Rightsizing recommendations currently can't be filtered by lease type, causing recommendations that if followed would result in waste by failing to consider the cost impact of the unused reserved instance.
2 months ago in Cloudability 0 Submitted

SevOne API Monitoring and Observability Enhancement Request

Request: Add API monitoring and observability capabilities that provide visibility into API usage, performance, resource consumption, and client activity. Historical API usage trends would be most important. Suggested Metrics and Monitoring Capabi...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 Planned for future release

Create a parking policy for PMC users not to start any VM more than 7 days in park my cloud

To avoid more uptime of the VM which is underutilization. If need user can revisit and extend the pause of the VM after 7 days.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
over 2 years ago in AIOps Integrations 4 Future consideration

Running a plan to resize node pool SKU in kubernetes against current work loads to better optimize the SKU that is running in that specific node pool

I would like to be able to run a plan against a specific node pool in a kubernetes cluster. When the plan is complete, it would provide you a recommended SKU to change the node pool to (rather build a new node pool using a different sized SKU) bas...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Submitted

Business Metrics Auditability and Change Tracking in Cloudability

Enhance the existing business metrics framework in Cloudability by introducing columns to track the creator and last updated user of each metric. This will provide auditability and allow for better evaluation of metric usefulness from a FinOps per...
4 months ago in Cloudability 0 Planned for future release

Increasing the largest selectable timeframe in dashboard more than 1 month

Hi, Is there any way to expand the timespan for more than one month? If not, this is a clear needs for all of our customers. BR
about 4 years ago in Instana / Metric Store / User Interface 1 Future consideration