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In Sankey Diagram, customer needs YTD for cost metric and not just month.

Hi All, ADIA is prime Middle East customer for us. They moved into Apptio from one of our competitors. They feel Sankey Diagram is the best thing on reporting side, but they need option to have YTD cost and not just monthly which is provided by ou...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Planned for future release

View/Edit anomaly detection - alert notifications centrally

Currently, the Cloudability console does not provide visibility into who has configured Anomaly Alerts Notifications. As the FinOps team, gaining insight into which users have enabled these alerts—along with the associated thresholds and the views...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Oracle Fussion

Oracle Fusion is a platform for enterprise applications in the cloud that includes tools for business management, the customer makes use of Oracle Fusion Middleware for the development of its core business applications and therefore it is key to b...
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

Add SysLocation, SysContact and other string OIDs as Message Variables for alerts

As the title says, adding these standard OIDs as trigger messages would be very useful for alerting and management on the NMS for engineers and owners of the affected device to contact the team or person responsible of it.
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 1 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

Instana support local monitoring For IBM DataPower Physical Appliance

Currently, Instana’s support for DataPower is limited to remote monitoring options for the DataPower Physical Appliance. However, our client is requesting local monitoring capabilities on the appliance itself. Since DataPower operates as a black b...
5 months ago in Instana / DataPower / MQ / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Object groups & device groups should not be allowed to be deleted, if a policy uses that group.

How it works currently : Upon deleting a device/object group, the associated policy also gets deleted. How should it work: When trying to delete a device/object group that is associated with a policy, an error/warning should be thrown to the user....
7 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Obtain metrics for paging errors BD/NBD and PERM - TEMP addresses on the IBM i system

Clients have frequently inquired about the ability of Instana to provide additional metrics for IBM i environments. As we know, the current monitoring capabilities include key metrics related to jobs, subsystems, CPU and ASP capacity, history logs...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Include full previous month in Month over Month Comparison in Cloudability Dashboards

Current behavior when comparing Last Month with Previous Period, it is only including the number of Days in Last Month when comparing Previous Period. This is an issue when Last Month(i.e. June) only has 30 days. When comparing to May, it will onl...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0

Add support for AWS Reservation for Services other than Virtual Machines e.g. AWS Reserved Instances for AWS RDS

Turbonomic is currently supporting AWS Reservations and AWS EC2 Reserved Instances ensuring that the existing reservation portfolio is optimally utilized, but AWS is offering reservation for other services also supported by Turbonomic e.g. AWS is ...