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If license usage is about to exceed the limit, for example, over 80%. it should trigger an alert.

With the current licensing system, users won’t notice if the license limit has been exceeded until they try to register a new target. It would be helpful to have a feature that automatically sends a notification—via email, Slack, etc.—when license...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Commitment Support for Azure NetApp Files

A capacity reservation covers matching capacity pools in the selected service level and region. When using capacity pools configured with cool access, only "hot" tier consumption is covered by the reservation benefit. Azure offer 30 different RI t...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Report Favorites should be removed if a report is marked inactive or moved to an unviewable collection

Currently, the ability to mark a report as a favorite is available to all users in Production. The TBMAs have no visibility to know what users have marked reports as a favorite. In fact, even if a TBMA impersonates another user, the favorites that...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Dynamic headers and footers in Print Layout

Currently, in Print Layout, there is functionality for Headers and Footers. In the documentation, it is stated that dynamic text is supported in headers but it seems this is dependent on the users PDF generator. We use the PDF generator of the web...
2 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Control Plain of Instana agents is required in Air-Gap environment.

The customer is considering expanding the usage of Instana SaaS. One thing that the customer is worrying about is to manage the update of Instana agents in restricted internet-access environment. Now, Instana agents are running as static mode and ...
2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

Data Reprocessing for Business Mappings

Need to create a support ticket to request a reprocessing of the data for Business Mappings (and wait 24 hours after the processing)
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

Official Terraform Provider / IaC

Need to have an official Terraform provider that is managed by Cloudability and takes into account all the latest features.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Governance 2 Future consideration

Adjust Self-Managed Turbonomic License to Match Contract Terms

As for self-managed Turbonomic license, currently, even for officially ordered licenses, the license file that customers register contains the following details: Expiration Date: 2122-12-31 Quantity: 999,999,999 This is essentially unlimited and s...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0

Request for Native Support for PHP Applications on Azure App Service

Dear Instana Team, We would like to request native support for Azure App Service running PHP applications. Our current workaround involves installing the Instana agent in the startup script as a Linux agent. This approach is not convenient for our...
10 months ago in Instana / PHP / Tracing 2 Planned for future release

Retroactive proposals (before 90 days)

I want you to make recommendations using any 90 days of data from the past.Not the last 90 days.The goal is to provide recommendations that take into account past load peaks so that users can perform optimizations in a planned manner. Attach a ref...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 2 Future consideration