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Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
21 days ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Submitted

Improved Summary/Description on LAD generated Alerts

Currently, the alerts generated by LAD are not user-friendly or easy to interpret without clicking through multiple links and navigating across different pages. As a result, it's not suitable for use in a production environment where incidents are...
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI

Hi Team, Would you please consider to add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI? Right now, only on-demand is being displayed, as these costs are usually higher, they create wrong expectations within the organization. Thanks fo...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Report in user activity

We like a structured method of monitoring application usage to monitor the adoption of CLoudability as a tool to the users. Now the only way to do this is look in the tool at the last activity/login. We would like a report to do that, or be able t...
6 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 1 Not under consideration

Ability to distinguish Service/Endpints with same name from different clusters

We have setup alerts to monitor complete drop in calls for Service & Endpoints. However, we have the same applicaiton (NOI) installed for two separate environments i.e. clusters (e.g. QA & PROD); the services and endpoints have same name e...
5 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 2 Functionality already exists

Perform periodic internal backups of all databases

We recently suffered some corruption of the Common Services Postgres database and found out that the pods themselves do not take any sort of backups to mitigate this situation. On a support call recently it was discovered that the Zen Database doe...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Generate alerts for Anomaly Detection at Account level

technical teams need to be able to monitor the anomalies for their accounts, but the current setting for alert is generating additional "noise"
5 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 2 Future consideration

Allow constraints based on the $$ savings of an action

It's helpful to have a special workflow for actions that save more money, so they get a different automation-schedule or attention or priority. The Turbonomic 'Action Center' lets you filter actions by savings but doesn't start a new process. To m...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Sync configuration between two Instana Backend instances

There is no tool available to download/upload the Standard Edition backend configuration - neither stanctl command nor UI option. Lack of such capability brings significant additional burden for operation teams running Instana self-hosted deployme...
2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 2 Future consideration

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration