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Turbonomic Policy engine provides easy way for set affinity to newer generations of instance types when considering same size so tool does not suggest de-modernizing from db.8g.4xl to db.6g.4xl

Newer cloud Provider instance types may have price/performance benefits that customers are seeking. Customersmay have a policy and practice of running newer instance types (database, virtual machines, ...). It would be helpful if the Turbonomic po...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Logs Enhancement - Smart Alert should have more grouping , Log file mentionning and log body

The New Log integration is functionnal within instana , but the smart alert integration lack key component to send alerts with the rightfull data for notifications. It currently will only tell you that you exceeded the set threshold regarding the ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

enable future date selection in the time range filter

One of my clients is using the Cloudability dashboard and would like to select a custom time range that aligns with their fiscal year — specifically from February 2025 to February 2026. However, when attempting to select this range, the calendar d...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

Per-Vendor Exchange Rate Configuration for Multi-Currency System

Today, Cloudability’s Multi-Currency System (MCS) allows organizations to consolidate costs into a single currency using a global exchange rate. However, many enterprises operate in environments where each vendor or contract may use a different ex...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Future consideration

ITP: Need bulk upload ability to input Targets in a Plan

Users need ability to bulk upload Targets in ITP rather than having to enter manually, especially in the case of Cost Center level targets. Our organization has hundreds of Cost Centers that require a target.
10 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana

Title: Monitoring AIX Metrics on Instana Details: IsBank would like to monitor and be able to create events on AIX hosts regards to the metrics below: - CPU run queue - NFS filesystem usage - Raw disk (not filesystem) utilization, for hdisks, read...
11 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Bring ITNM Topology Collections to AIOps

We are currently not sending ITNM Topology collections to AIOps, which is hindering some correlations due to the lack of the necessary collections in AIOps.
10 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Save our filters so you can apply them easily when we changed dashboard/report/widget

Not possible at the moment and this is not planned soon. It is possible to use the URL to hard record part of the filters... But this is not an interesting solution.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Future consideration

Adding recomendations for SQL Instances and Memorystore for GCP

Helps reduce cost for SQL and Redis usage in GCP by identifying overprovisioned and stale resources.
5 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Commitment Support OCI

Adding supported commitment types across OCI instances as well. It would help us get commitment recommendations from OCI as well. We have significant amount of spending on OCI as well
10 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 4 Future consideration