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Automatic Snapshot Removal

Snapshots are often taken and forgotten in the environment. They cause both unwanted storage use and performance issue to VMs if left around too long. Would like to be able to create an automation to remove\consolidate snapshots for groups based o...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Planned for future release

Enhance Line Item Code function to replace all and retain Line Item Codes

We reload our Labor and Assets data monthly in ITP.  This ensures that resources that are gone are removed, resources that change depts are moved and new resources are added.   We began to use Line Item Codes as a way to maintain a ...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Display [Description] field's text on mouse rollover of Editable Table's fields

As a TBMA, I would like to inform end users interacting with Editable Tables directly or via a report component of a field's description and other advice via mouse rollover pop-up text boxes to show that field's [Description] value. Such advice co...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Create event on CPU/Memory usage (K8S)

Hi, We want to configure an Instana event on Kubernetes. This event should warn us when the used memory or cpu is at a certain level on the deployment. Currenly it is not possible to create an event on this. Can you create this possibility? Thanks...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Kubernetes 3 Functionality already exists

More Elastic Scaling: Remove hardcoded restrictions on maximum observation period

For those customers that want to unleash Turbonomic to unlock elasticity in the cloud, we use the percentile and observation settings to help influence Turbo's decision making. However, it appears there are hardcoded limits to the minimum/maximum ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Provide container rightsizing recommendations for Karpenter nodepools similar to what is provided for ASG nodes

Karpenter is becoming an industry standards, my customers want container rightsizing recommendations for Karpenter node pools.
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Allow customization to the container cost allocation algorithm

Currently the cost allocation is based on the instances used in the cluster. Customers would also like to be able to tailor the cost allocation for specific clusters or be able to assign their own weight for some workload types. Possible configura...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Create an "Undo" button to allow users to revert a change

Create an "Undo" button to allow users to revert a change that was made in error
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Add option to Import/Export in .xlsx format

It would be nice to import/export to .xlsx in ITP because right now everything is .csv which drops leading zeros and causes issues with formatting and integrity of the data
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Give clients the ability to remove the Hours option on the Labor Activity screen

We view everything in FTE terms and have had issues where the toggle was changed to hours and our data was inaccurate requiring re-work and re-sending of data to our reporting suite
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration