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Discovering DR regions such as UAE Central

Lots of customers have workloads located in DR regions and some of these workloads require performance assurance and optimization. It will be valuable to have that visibility over DR regions as some customers also use the workloads there for produ...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Consistant resizing for DBaaS on Azure

In the situation were there are 2 SQL DBaaS in high availability configuration ( Active-Passive ). When Turbo gives recommendation to size up or down the Active DB, it needs also to reflect that size on the DR or Backup DB to make sure when there ...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Submitted

Adding OTel collector management to the instana console in self-hosted Instana standard version.

Hi, with the customer's request we raised an IBM ticket to check if the OTEL collector management is possible from the instana console. And the support confirmed that the feature is currently available for SAAS but asked to rais an idea with IBM t...
7 days ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Submitted

Reporting of Cloudability User Metrics for Administrators

As an Administrator of our Cloudability/ApptioBI system I have a requirement to report on my colleagues overall usage of your products to my management. Namely: Cloudability, ApptioBI, and (limited) TBM/Apptio One. This could be console access, vi...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Request Access to Report should have a Request Access button or just show the report owner

Users are trying to access reports that are not shared with them and they do not know who the owner is so they can request access. This leads to requests to our team to identify those report owners. The Request Access to Report prompt should have ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Ability to share a report with a 'Microsoft Entra ID' group.

It will be usefull if we are able to share a report to a group of people based on 'Microsoft Entra ID' group. As a large company, we have systems that group people into groups and keep those groups up to date. Which is not the case at individuals ...
20 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Inclusion of option to disable Auto-Closure of Agent Alerts in Instana

Sharing the customer request below: "I wanted to raise a concern regarding the current alert auto-closure mechanism in Instana, specifically for cases where agents go offline or stop reporting. While I appreciate the workaround suggested—setting b...
3 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Submitted

Ability to configure or override default retention period for Instana backend data dabases for traces/metrics data.

Hi Team, Current Installation Type: We have installed custom edition of Instana, and we have below datastores installed in our AWS EKS cluster. These backend datastores are using EBS volume. Day by day the data volumes are keep on increasing, and ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Container Cost Allocation Based on Labels Instead of Namespaces

The customer has over 40 Kubernetes clusters with numerous shared resources within a single namespace across different cost centers. They would like the Kubernetes cost allocation feature to support allocation of resources based on labels, rather ...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Request for additional features that can be provided via the Turbonomic API.

My customer has been using Cloudability Premium as basis of cloud resource and cost optimization managed service for their customers. Which contains Cloudability-SaaS and Turbonomic-SaaS function limited. Regarding on Turbonomic SaaS reporting fun...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Submitted