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Add owner of the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab

Please add the username/name of the person who created the Application Perspective in the Configuration tab, that way we know who created it. Thank you.
6 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Integrate Comments from Service Now Rightsizing Recommendation records back to Cloudability

Its very difficult to get engineers to take action on Rightsizing - this was the number 1 key priority in FinOps for many years up until 2024 - its still very important - having engineers and FinOps working together in one tool is key to getting t...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Enterprise level support for target management. More information and downloads.

This was a request from a large customer with hundreds of targets. Some of which are labeled critical - even though they might still be working - and might just be delayed - can the reason for the CRTICAL be more easily found. ideally we can downl...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

Self-Monitoring Instana with Instana - Document Instana custom metrics

(Self-Hosted) Instana instances can be fully monitored using Instana. If you know which metrics (custom metrics in Instana) to look out for when workload or resources change. Instana should provide up-to-date documentation of internal custom metri...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Self Hosted 2 Future consideration

Include a simple method to import AD/LDAP certificates for external authentication

The current method to import the LDAP certificate to allow for external AD authentication is extremely complex, cumbersome, time consuming, and error prone. Multiple troubleshooting sessions are needed at times to figure out how to get the certifi...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Future consideration

Supported observer for ingesting Forward Networks topology

We have several customers asking for the ability to leverage Forward Networks topology data in Cloud Pak for AIOps. Forward Networks is their main source of truth used for network discovery and network management, and we should be able to incorpor...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

As a user I would like to push Kafka topics to multiple brokers/consumers, so that I can use built-in SaaS reporting as well as provide the data for internal BI teams

Please see attached for details for consideration. It would provide great benefit to be able to utilize kafka connectors to asynchronously push data to other consumers rather than the current 1:1 producer:consumer to data explorer today.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.

Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.in organizations where security is paramount (which is the majority of companies now) it is a security threat to have Service Accounts where i...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Future consideration

Ingest Turbonomic Topology

Ability to ingest infrastructure topology from Turbo would allow for a more granular/comprehensive view across our IT Ecosystem. This would lead to faster resolution of IT incidents.
about 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

Single Unique Identifier Column

Currently plans contain unique identifier information in two fields when on the summary page. UID for Other Expenses are tracked in the "Line Item Code" field while Contracts UID is tracked on the "Source Line Item Code" field. Please provide the ...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration