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Adapt number format to regional conventions for decimal and thousands separator

For European users, the display of amounts in the American format can be quite annoying. E.g. The numeric fields are formatted using the American conventions: - point as decimal separator - comma as thousands separator e.g. 880,000.00 In Germany, ...
12 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 0 Under review

Include Disk USED vs Provisioned as a rightsizing recommendation

As a new rightsizing opportunity, for customers who have enhanced CW metrics enabled on their EC2 instances could we look to including a capability to check the actually utilized disk vs what was provisioned, eg: you're only using 10GB of a 1TB pr...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

The Cost Savings Per Month field which is available in downloads - add it to the API

Large customers use the API to blend this data with Portfolio Management Data - the cost savings is a KEY prioritization parameter to get actions taken.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Hostname For Outbound SMTP Connections Should Be Configurable

The current implementation of php SMTP mailer does not set the hostname for the HELO message, which results in Message-IDs ending with 'localhost.localdomain'. This cannot be changed, and may result in the alert mailer not working under some SMTP ...
8 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 0 Is a defect

Adding Single-AZ or Multi-AZ field to the RDS Resource Inventory

Adding the availability zone details in a column of Resource Inventory would give the customer a detailed view on the RDS.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 3

Add CPU count and memory metrics to go along with instance types.

Withe the instance type information, adding a CPU count and total memory should be a easy metric addition that maps to the instance types. CPU count would be very helpful for licensing requirements.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances

Creation date for Snapshots and EC2 instances: We have several accounts with very high Snapshot Costs, and it will help us target where we can save the most if we can tackle the oldest resources first.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Under review

Exclude idle time in IOPS and Throughput metrics

Consider excluding idle time when calculating IOPS and Throughput metrics used for recommendations or add it as an optional way to interpret and view recommendations. The current formula used is the sum of read and write operations dived by time p...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Treat Call and Trace metrics like any other time-series metrics

Regarding Application & Trace Data Retention policy, we claim that “Accurate metrics of applications, services, and endpoints are kept for 31 days.” After looking into this in detail, I have made the following observations: Call metrics with 1...
8 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 1 Future consideration

Create a new Presets button in the Time range Presets options for 'Last month' (or 'Last 28 days', something like this)

Simce Instana can show metrics up to 1 month why isn't there this kinda button in the presets. This can help with showing the 'Monthly overview' of the metrics f.e. in the Custom Dashboard section. Place where I imagine this idea to be developed a...
8 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Planned for future release