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Enable Linking to Other Ticket IDs in Rightsizing ROI Screen Comments Description

Customer wants the ability to link to other ticket IDs within the comment section of the Rightsizing ROI screen. Background: When documenting the status of a detected resource, we often refer to similar cases that have already been addressed. In s...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Customer would like to request the ability to display the region of each resource in the Rightsizing ROI screen, even if it's shown in a detail section.

Customer would like the ability to display the region of each resource in the Rightsizing ROI screen, even if it's shown in a detail section. Background: When reviewing recommendations, customer sometimes needs to locate the corresponding resource...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Kanban View States: ability to customize grouping of states

It would be helpful to have the ability to customize how states are displayed as columns in the Kanban view. Right now, the system automatically groups them based on process workflows. We would like the flexibility to categorize states or map them...

Add Entity and Action UUIDs as an available column in the Search and Actions tables

The process for getting to this information easily for 50+ or even 1000+ items when utilizing the APIs to do metadata tagging is very cumbersome and requires multiple navigation clicks to move from one item to another. Making this an available cus...
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Cloudability Dynamic Currency Service

Rather than use a manual upload of currencies for managing cldy cross platform currencies, it would make sense to use a dynamic service to make an API call and set this in the platform as opposed to a manual upload. API is also a must
21 days ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

See the sustainability impact of using AI/ML tools in the cloud

As a FinOps lead trying to influence my colleagues to use things responsibly, I need accurate sustainability metrics for AI/ML usage, to get my colleagues to use AI/ML with due care. The sustainability metrics are not available for the majority of...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Add subgrouping to Infrastructure View

Hi team, our customer would like to have the possibility of having more than one-level of grouping in the Infrastructure View (something like sub-zone concept), so they can manage the complexity of their infrastructure Platform and have a better v...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Allow more options for Perspective and Grouping in the Infrastructure View

Hi team, we know currently we can use Zones, which are the default display in the Infrastructure View, and then we can use Host or Container Grouping based on a defined set of attributes like CPU, OS, K8S namespace, etc. We explored the Tag Prefix...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Add Alias option for Hosts

Hi team, When monitoring a Host, the naming is based on the FQDN. Sometimes this name is not explanatory or easily identifiable by Instana users, especially when a customer has a big amount of hosts being monitored. It would be great to have the p...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted