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Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Alert 1 Future consideration

Add Number of Rows to Tables on Reports and Dashboards

It would be helpful to have the number of rows in a table on a report or dashboard widget. Apptio does this by showing the number of rows at the bottom of each table. This information is useful when just trying to get a general idea of the size of...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Simplifying the API call to fetch the device health statistics . And also option to extract the reports in PDF using API call. Kind of some template or Multiple device report at the same time .

This feature can be used to pull the reports , Device health statistics using Simple API calls from an agent .
3 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 2 Needs more information

Create out of the box Dimension for Workload ID for Containers

Cloudability Dimensions are limited to Cluster and Namespace and do not include Workload ID. Most organisation allocate costs at the Workload level, not the Namespace level, however this is missing when creating custom Reports, and exporting data ...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Enhancement for Secure Transport plugin: option to receive no error if there are no files to pull

Imagine the following scenario: We need to regularly check, every X minutes throughout the day, if a file is available on an external partner's SFTP. When a file is available, we must download it immediately, with a maximum delay of 5 minutes. To ...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Allowing Scheduling of a Parking Schedule Pause

We have a need to plan/schedule Parking Schedule Pauses to allow developers/engineers to plan maintain windows into existing Parking Schedules. So currently we have parking schedules in place and our sysadmins can pause a parking schedule for a pe...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Upload Business Mappings via CSV

For many financial teams creating business mappings in the UI is cumbersome and they lack the skills to be able to create JSON. Its been requested that we should provide the ability to upload Business Mapping statements via CSV to Cloudability.
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 2 Future consideration

Ability to filter container labels with not equals, contains, does not contain

Since containers are not available in reports, customers want to be able filter their container data based on mulitple criteria similar to what they could do in reporting (contains, does not equal, does not contain).
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 2 Under review

Ingress FOCUS 1.2

Cloudability currently supports FOCUS version 1.0 FOCUS version 1.1 When will 1.2 be available? We want to be able to integrate with StackIT and they only support 1.2 focus format.

Remember/Default pivot for table widgets

When you define a table widget and select a desired pivot the later is not saved, this becomes inconvenient when you have a dashboard with multiple tables that require the same pivot. The desire is to be able define a default pivot when creating a...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration