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I would like to choose the alignments of the column headings and the column data in widgets within Cloudability.

I am working on a widget I created in my dashboard on Cloudability. The widget I created is a table and it has different columns on there and I would like to choose the alignments of the column headings and the column data. It would look neater if...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration

Windows operating system support (ARM architecture)

Support the installation of agent in Windows (ARM) for collection of the operating system metrics and identification of the technologies running on the host.
2 days ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Apply a filter on "Estimate" widget

As a Finops I would like to be able to apply a filter to my widget, to exclude taxes for example. It would be relevant because a lot of companies doesn't have to pay taxes and doesn't want to track them.
3 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

API enhancement | json support

the API is helpful for situations where using the console isn't possible or ideal (automation, programmatic access, etc.). ibm support said that json as an output is not supported. json as a format is foundational to programmatic operations and AP...
3 days ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Submitted

Detecting/Alerting on poisoned queues for IBM MQ

One of our top 4 banking customers in Australia had a Sev 1 incident last week, where their Internet Banking was down for 1 hour due to a poisoned queue. This was not detected by any monitoring tool and took some time to get to the root cause and ...
3 days ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Add Connect:Direct API

Canada's 2nd largest food distributor, Sobeys, is interested in pursing a PoC around Sterling SFG certificates and Connect:Direct certificates. API documentation can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/connect-direct/6.4.0?topic=connectdire...
7 days ago in Concert Workflows 0 Under review

Deploy and upgrade all the components in Instana Backend on Openshift with a single Operator

We need to simplify the upgrading and deploying procedure for INSTANA Backend on Openshift, A standard Openshift Operator could be the solution. It should allow to install the components and to upgrade it and the components as a standard Operator ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Backend Enablement 0 Under review
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In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Allow Probes to add dynamic custom fields to alerts in Watson AIOps that are visible in the details section.

n Netcool OMNIbus, it was possible to manually create new fields in the database (alerts.status) via insert operations, and then populate them through Probe rules. This allowed operators to enrich events with custom business-relevant data directly...
about 1 month ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Reserved Coverage Rate metric needs to include Azure's MS Fabric

We have dashboard widgets to surface our Reserved Coverage Rate. We recently purchased large reservations for Microsoft Fabric and the Reserved Coverage Rate never increased. We subsequently learned that Fabric was not included in the Metric.
10 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration