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Label (Key) field comes as (not set) in report even when Label is available

Label (Key) field comes as (not set) in reports even when Label is available and only value is missing. Some default labels for GKE resources dont have a value, but can be used to distinguish such resources from GCE without the need of installing ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 2 Under review

Realized Savings Reporting

Develop a reporting capability in Cloudability that allows customers to generate reports on realized savings from rightsizing actions. While the current Rightsizing ROI Tracker provides visibility, it cannot be edited or customized. Create customi...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Customer wants to have agents communicate with SaaS backend via a Gateway

Communication via proxy is not easily manageable: security people need to change security settings of firewall for every agent intalled.
5 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Planned for future release

WAS Sensor - Enable an Application Status metric for each deployed Enterprise Application

We must be able to create a Custom Event for the Application Status.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / WAS 1 Future consideration

AIOPs incident title summary should be meaningful to user. It should hold the Device Name and Summary of the most proable Alert ( Rank 1 )

Currently AIOPs incident title summary is derived from the the summary of the first alert that caused the incident to be created and not the from the summary of most probable cause alert that is member of group of alerts associated with same incid...
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP

The customer wants an alarm when the same test goes wrong on 2 different POP.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 2 Not under consideration

Needs visibility into unresponsive and non-reporting agents

In environments with thousands of agents there must be a way to notify administrators when agents are no longer "checking in" or reporting information. Identifying the problematic agents among the thousands of those that were reporting involved do...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Functionality already exists

Limit policy options to targeted infrastructure types

To reduce the complexity of Policy construction, reduce the available options to show ONLY the options for currently targeted infrastructure categories. Basically, if an instance does not target on-prem assets, don't show on-prem-related options d...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

When visiting the Settings|Policies page, load ONLY user-defined policies by default

Currently, when a user visits the Settings|Policies page, ALL policies are loaded, which results in a long delay before being able to interact with the datagrid. To optimize the load time, I suggest loading ONLY the user-defined policies (and mayb...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Allow multi-entityType policies for Execution Mode & Schedules

Currently, Policies are restricted to a single entity type. If I want to set the Execution mode or attach a Schedule to a defined scope of resources, I must create a separate Group and Policy for each entity type. I understand the need to have dif...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration