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Custom Dashborads - Axis and Widget legend display

Hi team, please allow the possibility to format the y-Axis, so it displays more values (not just the upper value). Regarding the Legends, in some cases they are displayed perfectly, but sometimes, when there are many metrics displayed, or few metr...
17 days ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
25 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Future consideration

Four decimal places

My budget owners needs to have a field type of "Money" to be with four decimal places. Currently two is fine for US Dollar but with our global market we need to go to the 4th.
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Budgeting 2

Consistent sizing: Allow consistent number of vCPUs instead of consistent CPU capacity in MHz

Customers are not using MHz or GHz when they are dealing with CPU capacity of VMs but vCPUs. Thus, for a user consistent resizing shall - at least as an option - result in the same number of vCPUs. For a user it’s really hard to understand if the ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Request to Remove the 400-Topic Limit for Kafka Metrics Collection in Instana Agent

Currently, Instana Agent imposes a limit of 400 topics for Kafka metrics collection. We would like to kindly request that this restriction be relaxed or removed. In the system we are currently building, the number of topics is expected to reach ap...
2 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 1 Future consideration

Make additional attributes available for column customization and filtering

Being able to make additional elements and information available for sorting, export, and filtering would greatly enhance navigation and decision making in the platform. Options to display additional info. i.e. entity tags, account tags, etc. Near...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Turbonomic Parking: Allow for a start date in future for parking

Currently, when you attach a schedule - it takes effect immediately. The idea would be to allow parking schedules to have a start and stop date - much like regular schedules.
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Consistent sizing: Show group member(s) with highest utilization which determine size of the group

In Turbonomic UI you don't have a chance to easily identify the member of a consistent resizing group with the highest load which determines the VM size for the group. This becomes almost impossible when comparing VMs running on hosts with differe...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Subcategories in credits to classify them and better understand these concepts when creating reports

The client would like to be able to subclassify credits in the same way, or in a more granular way, as seen in the console of their cloud providers. In this case, GCP. Currently, in Cloudability, we only classify them as credits or not.
24 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Submitted