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Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted

Provide public API to update Rightsizing ROI tickets or add comments

One of my customer in inquiring if we can enable or consider enabling write access for cloudability API V3. When it comes to rightsizing ROI data, the cloudability API V3 is read only, which is preventing them from adding comments or updating entt...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

multi-tenency and multi-chatops channel support for Cloud Pak for AIOps

We have been discussing these topics with the WW AIOps team for some time now. Based on what I've heard, multi-tenancy and multi-ChatOps channel functionalities are part of the product backlog but do not have a specific timeline yet. As the client...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Future consideration

Instana must provide a "Matching Operator" that should be a 'NOT' (The 'NOT' is not available in the Instana UI drop down) for host entity types

Bradesco customer is moving from ITM into the realm of Instana. There are currently using several thresholds that involves checking a disk NOT equal to /disk-path-here. For example look at the below ITM situations; i) *IF *VALUE KLZ_Disk.Inodes_Us...
2 months ago in Instana / ITM v6, ITCAM v7, APM v8 4 Functionality already exists

possibility to dectivate or change the behavior of imported kubernetes policy

For proper segregation, it is essential to have the ability to disable or modify the values of policies imported from Kubernetes. Our current challenge is that we need to exclude certain actions that the product currently suggests for sidecars. Wi...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Planned for future release

Option to count e.g. number of cloud accounts

We have another KPI to track the growth of cloud accounts or number of projects
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Add some sample workflows and documentation for Expect SSH Integration into the Automation Library

At this time, there is no good documentation or samples for the ExpectSSH integration. While it could be argued that it's not needed, it's very difficult for a user to know how to design a workflow that uses the ExpectSSH array format. Know that t...
about 1 month ago in Concert Workflows 0 Submitted

Making "Your Month so Far" report more realistic in Current Month tab (Budget & Forecasting)

At the beginning of each month, the Estimated Monthly Cost and the % difference compared to last month often show unrealistically positive downward trend. However, as the days progress, the trend usually shifts and the numbers get worse. This earl...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Topology REST API for the Service Now

We need to expose the Topology REST API for the Service Now team to consume. However, the authentication of the API is limited to HTTP Basic, and current the only available username/password pair is from a K8s secret. As confirm by this support ti...
6 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

More granularity for maintenance windows, adding minutes not just hours

Need to be able to shorten time frame for maintenance windows. For example a 15 or 30 minute window, or a 1 hour and 30 minutes for example.
2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Functionality already exists