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Add support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets in Rightsizing

Please add support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) rightsizing recommendations, this is a very common deployment option for virtual machines, much like ASG's in AWS. Not having rightsizing support is a big gap in what is common to be a...

Colour (color) control in chart-type widgets

We are finding that some users are becoming confused with the colours in chart-type widgets in Cloudability Dashboards, particularly when tracking differing timelines. I have attached an example where for a given timeline, AWS ECS was the primary ...
16 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Create a parking policy for PMC users not to start any VM more than 7 days in park my cloud

To avoid more uptime of the VM which is underutilization. If need user can revisit and extend the pause of the VM after 7 days.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1

Create business mapping dimensions dynamically

I'd like to be able to create business mappings dynamically. For example, using regular expressions to dynamically create new business mappings each time an expression is matched. I would be much easing rather than create a specific statement for ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Future consideration

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Support filter dependencies at Dashboard level

When Execs look at a dashboard and want to drill down they may not know the structure of all the teams. Filter Dependencies should apply to dashboard level so that people can quickly delve down with out having to remember which teams are part of w...
about 1 month ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 1 Not under consideration

Filtering traces and trace spans based on time spent in various stages such as self-time, network time, waiting time

Knowing the self-time and waiting time of HTTP requests would help in understanding the performance of the system and the performance of downstream systems. This will be helpful in creating accurate SLO dashboards that measure the performance of e...
17 days ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Submitted

GitOps integration: support for bitbucket+ArgoCD

We are starting a Turbonomic deployment in Intesa Sanpaolo; they asked for integration with their GitOps process to apply changes in RHOCP clusters; Turbonomic actions related to RHOCP target should be applied to their bitbucket repository instead...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration

Cloudability MCP (Model Context Protocol)

We are currently building a FinOps Assistant GENAI, we have already other sources to enhance our FinOps assistant e.g AWS Billing and Cost Management official MCP, JIRA official MCP, DataDog official MCP and so on. What we are missing now is the C...
12 days ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Impact out of the box Netcool Impact MWM check completion flag needed

Suppressed alerts are falsely forwarded to upstream systems like event-automation as we cant explicitly filter out 'MWM Processed' alerts.
12 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review