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Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Do not allow report users to select more alternative dimensions than are supported by a visual

Problem: Right now if you configure a graph visual such as a stacked bar with a primary dimension and multiple alternate dimensions the alternate dimension menu the user interacts with is a multi-select in which the user can check the boxes beside...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Mobile version for Instana UI

Dear Colleagues, our customer asks for Instana UI suitable for mobile browsers or mobile applications for Android/iOS. When administrators far from PC it would help to reduce overall MTTR when they see incident details and perform preliminary inve...
5 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Future consideration

More details about unmonitored servers or components

Ability to automatically identify candidate servers for monitoring because they interact with the monitored applications or servers. This will uncover any relationships with critical application elements that may have been overlooked in current ob...
5 months ago in Instana / Extend Domains / Platform Coverage 0 Future consideration

Proposal for IBM Instana Enhancement: Monitoring .NET Framework Applications on Mono in Kubernetes

Costumers that are migrating to .NET Core usually start by transitioning from IIS to Kubernetes clusters. During this migration journey, many organizations also need to maintain legacy .NET Framework applications for compatibility reasons, especia...
10 months ago in Instana / .NET / Kubernetes 0 Future consideration

Automated Custom certificates with no down time

We have a huge environment and distributing the certificates or scripts to each agent is not feasible. Provide an automated certificate process where the new certs are provisioned on each agent in parallel with the existing ones to allow either of...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Capturing S3 Folder Costs

Hi Team, We are trying to see costs at a folder level inside of S3 Buckets. Cloudability doesn't have the ability to divide the cost of each S3 bucket by each individual folder path. Additionally, AWS doesn’t allow you to put tags on the folders, ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration

Global fiscal year, so date range for quarter follows the fiscal year setting. Then forecasting can also show for fiscal year, not calendar year / month.

Support for CFP data in BI.But required in either TC or CLDY.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Improved Cost Anomaly Detection

Our team uses AWS’ anomaly detection service within their Cost Management portal. It would be excellent if we could get this same functionality from Cloudability and if the anomaly team might be able to improve their anomaly detection to be more l...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Selectively reprocess data for only specific Business Mappings and date ranges.

Currently, IBM Cloudability lacks the ability to selectively reprocess data for specific business mappings. When a business rule changes for one business dimension, users are forced to reprocess all mappings, even those that were previously accura...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Future consideration