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Cloudability Access Logs / Report views by user

Much like how Apptio Costing has a usage project within an environment, The customer would like something similar for Cloudability / BI. Customer would like the ability to see which users are viewing which reports and at what rate (ex: John Doe vi...
10 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 1 Future consideration

Commitment Support for AWS Sagemaker Savings Plans Recommendations

Commitment Support for AWS Sagemaker Savings Plans Recommendations
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Future consideration

Publish a list of the open source products and versions.

We need to be able to easily track what version underlying open source products are being used in the latest Instana releases (Cassandra, etc) so we can make sure we are using versions approved by our firm. Please add a page to the Instana documen...
about 1 month ago in Instana / Common 0 Future consideration

Allow the NMS to purge SNMP devices either missing at the SNMP agent (packet error on polling that OID) or missing completely (no response to TCP packets)

As per title, the cluster settings call for set up parameters that take care handling operative or missing objects. However, this should also allow for the removal of any objects with a SNMP Operational or Administrative Status other than down per...
about 1 month ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

S3 scripting enhancement to allow index to be variable if the values of that variable is integer or another OID.

SNMP scripting documentation explains that "A variable cannot be used as an index number. The index number must be an actual number". Indeed, S3 fails if for example you try to get values of the last character of the string of variable length. Wit...
2 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Local binding mode support for Local monitoring for MQ deployed in OCP cluster

At the moment Instana agent only supports client binding mode for locally monitored OpenShift deployed MQ.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-mq#common-scenarios This required agent configuration...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Future consideration

Extend Commitment Portfolio Support to Business Mapping–Based Views

Today, Commitment Portfolio in Cloudability only supports views based on account and vendor tag dimensions. This creates a limitation for customers like NTT, who want to manage commitments in alignment with their Azure enrollment (payer accounts)....
3 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Future consideration

Allow limiting access to Data Insight OOTB reports.

In multi-tenant deployments, the ability to limit what reports a user/tenant is presented with is key to being able to simplify the user experiance and reduce the effort for limited users or tenants to see only what they need. Allowing them to qui...
12 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 3 Future consideration

Enable Instana backend to accept EUM traffic from Mobile App that uses key from different Instana instance

Why is it useful: This requirement to support High Availability architecture (fail-over scenario) which is crucial for mission-critical apps. Who would benefit from it: Enterprise with mission-critical apps will get benefit of Observability tool t...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Future consideration

Provide a means for high availability of the Turbonomic platform

As a user I would like the ability to run Turbonomic in an active/active or active/passive model, so if my primary (or any) Turbonomic instance in my environment fails, I can continue operations without putting my infrastructure and business appli...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration