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Difficult to check what the changes have been made

Can we make group by in the top ? by the plan ?then by the amount ? so we can check how much amount was added or removed in the timeframe selected, filters of cost centre or others can be provided ( this should be visible to Admins and also for Co...
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Turbonomic to support resource monitoring for IBM softwares delivered in virtual appliance form

IBM has a few software products that are delivered as virtual appliances. These services running in a VM deployed with a OVA template. Currently, Turbonomic evaluate them as a regular VM and may issue a resize actions based on the server metrics d...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Notification of when Calculations are complete in IBM Apptio TBM Studio

If there was some type of automated notification of when the calculations completed in IBM Apptio - TBM Studio, it would help everyone! This would help us to know exactly when we can push to production and get that information out to our customers...
3 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Clear All

When using the search bar in a table in Costing or Studio, to reset you need to clear out the filter. This is cumbersome if you have filtered on multiple columns. It would be great to have a global 'clear all' button to easily reset the table.
4 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Create an event for the SUSPECT STATE database metric in MS SQL

We need to create an event when the database is in SUSPECT STATE equal to YES and notify this state. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.305?topic=technologies-monitoring-microsoft-sql-server In the Instana's event page, we canno...
9 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Mask Sensitive Data in URL - Tracking Data

We have a customer(Global Payments) use case scenario where our Instana shows the customer credit card information in the endpoint url, the customer is asking to hide/mask as its sensitive information.
11 days ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Monitoring More Than 400 Kafka Topics

Based on the case TS020129393, the customer would like to monitor more than 400 Kafka topics which was limited by default on Instana agent monitoring according to document https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.303?topic=technologie...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Other Tracers 1 Submitted

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 ...

Container Platform Clusters - "Executed Actions - Succeded and Failed" widget with empty data

For Turbonomic, In the search -> Container Platform Clusters option, the "Executed Actions - Succeeded or Failed" widget doesn't display any data for a specific cluster. The customer opened a support case ticket (TS020249556) and the response f...
23 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 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...