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Show comparative daily figure

generally find it useful - but in February and March it is always going to show the wrong data as it is comparing days with different number of days. It would be more useful if the headline showed a comparative daily figure for the daily run rate ...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 0 Future consideration

Improvement of status of file-observer

When the file-observer has the state "finished", there are still some jobs in the background, i.e. indexing in Elasticsearch. The state in the overview of topology-management is irritating, as the user might still see some undefined resources in ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Planned for future release

Customisable Alerts by Frequency (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)

Allow customers to create and manage cost or usage alerts in Cloudability with flexible scheduling options daily, weekly, or monthly. Daily alerts: Trigger based on thresholds or anomalies detected in a single day’s spend or usage. Weekly alerts: ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 1 Needs more information

Consistency between BM statement names and how they are displayed

I have created Business Mapping with capitalisation e.g. Account-Operations or BT, but when utilising BM in dashboards they all appear formatted by Cloudability to all lower case . This inconsistency is confusing for users and capitalisation is us...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Under review

Enable Cloudability Rightsizing to Ingest Memory Usage Directly from Azure Platform Metrics (without DCR/AMA)

Currently, Cloudability’s Azure rightsizing recommendations require memory usage data to be ingested via DCR (Data Collection Rules) and AMA (Azure Monitor Agent) deployments on workloads. While this works, it creates unnecessary deployment overhe...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration

Include Suspend Actions in Container Pods Automation Policy

Currently, the automation policy for container pods includes only the "Move" action in the automation workflow. However, we've received feedback from customers who prefer not to see "Suspend" actions for container pods in the Action Center. To add...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 3 Not under consideration

More granular authorisation to execute impact policies via the REST API

As of Impact 7.1 Fix Pack 23, Impact policies can be triggered using the REST API. This is great and we have some use case where our Netcool users could benefit from this feature. Unfortunately, a user must have the impactAdminUser role to access ...
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Allow more flexibility on alert messages

We would like to customize the subject of email alerts sent, so that the users can at a glance determine what is going wrong. This could be done by adding an option for a custom title in the Alert parameters.
11 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Future consideration

Server and Agent SSL certificate management through the DWC

SSL certificates have always been an important requirement for IWS/IWA. This continues to increase as organisations move toward public cloud infrastructure. This is especially true of cloud kubernetes services such as AKS, EKS & GKS. Most cust...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

make ldap-configuration more customizable

For a NOI installation running on OCP with LDAP mode proxy, it is an absolute requirement that the users icpadmin and impactadmin must exist in the connected LDAP. The names of these users are not freely selectable, but must be exactly the same. T...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 8 Planned for future release