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Indicate the specific policy that blocks an action to increase understanding and confidence about the actions

The Problem Lack of visibility into which policy is blocking an action generates several negative effects: Loss of operational traceabilityUsers don't know if the action was blocked by: A disabled automation policy A group with restricted scope A ...
21 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Enable Alerting on Business Metrics in Instana

Instana currently supports the ingestion of business metrics via OpenTelemetry (OTLP), which is a powerful way to correlate application performance with business outcomes. However, there is no native mechanism to create alerts based on these busin...
21 days ago in Instana / Integrations 0 Submitted

Please provide support for Nexus 10.3 OS since 9.x firmware has become obsolete.

Would benefit all to backup configuration of switches which may be key and integral to processes.
21 days ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Submitted

Enable Linking to Other Ticket IDs in Rightsizing ROI Screen Comments Description

Customer wants the ability to link to other ticket IDs within the comment section of the Rightsizing ROI screen. Background: When documenting the status of a detected resource, we often refer to similar cases that have already been addressed. In s...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Customer would like to request the ability to display the region of each resource in the Rightsizing ROI screen, even if it's shown in a detail section.

Customer would like the ability to display the region of each resource in the Rightsizing ROI screen, even if it's shown in a detail section. Background: When reviewing recommendations, customer sometimes needs to locate the corresponding resource...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
3 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

We would like to see labels / annotations at a pod-level instead of a cluster-level via report or API

Our internal team tags their Kubernetes clusters at a pod level because they track their client's usage via pods since it's more granular. However, right now Cloudability reports and API pulls only give us access to cluster level labels & anno...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

Cloudability feature that analyzes Azure Event Hubs and reports over-provisioning and rightsizing recommendations

What We Need A Cloudability feature that analyzes Azure Event Hubs usage and tells us when we're paying for more capacity than we need (or when we're about to hit limits). Since tier and capacity are set at the namespace level, we need rightsizing...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Savings Automation 0 Submitted

Amortization Schedule in Editable Table

When entering data in an editable table for a cost Item that needs to be spread out for time period duration it would be really helpful if the user can just check a box as is done in planning the cost can be amortized for the specific time. This w...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Support Grafana as a target for Turbonomic for observability/apm

Customer uses Grafana and would like support for it as a target configuration!
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted