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Maintenance windows to have Object Level Filtering

Use Case - A device is up and running, however a specific object is down for ‘maintenance’. It would be nice to be able to suppress Alerting for that specific object or group of objects. Example: Circuit maintenance on a router with more than one ...
over 2 years ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 3 Future consideration

Standardize the position and behavior of the search bar across all views by keeping it consistently on the left and fully clickable, improving usability and alignment with common UI patterns.

This change reduces user confusion and friction by making the search functionality predictable, discoverable, and easy to interact with across the entire platform. Consistency in UI placement supports faster navigation, reduces misclicks, and alig...
6 months ago in Instana / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Add a "PersistentVolumes" column to the Kubernetes Clusters view for quicker visibility and access to PV details and metrics

This enhancement would significantly improve observability and troubleshooting by making PersistentVolumes (PVs) immediately visible at the cluster level. Currently, users have to dig through multiple views to find storage-related information. Sur...
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / User Interface 1 Not under consideration

Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Functionality already exists

DI TopN Column Timespans Overwritten by Report Timespan + Add Rolling TopN Column Timespans

The TopN widget settings allow users to add multiple columns via the Timespan option under the Analyze tab. If this option is used to set columns in a widget, and then the Report Timespan option is used to set a custom timespan, it overwrites all ...
4 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

able to see Categories from Nutanix Acropolis

Be able to see Categories from Nutanix Acropolis so you can build groups via the categories
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Allow more than one Insight per Apptio BI report

This would allow more insight benefits to be obtained and more conveniently. Otherwise multiple reports need to be spawned in order create required Insights.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Support for Simple Calculated Expressions Within Cloudability Dashboard Widgets

Currently, Cloudability dashboards allow users to display predefined values in widgets. However, it would be highly beneficial if users could define simple expressions or calculations directly within widget columns. For example: Calculating the di...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Planned for future release

Ability to create tickets for RI Recommendations (Similar to rightsizing) - SNOW Integration

Ability to create tickets for RI Recommendations (Similar to rightsizing) - SNOW Integration
8 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 1 Not under consideration

Request to Include Cisco ACI in Turbonomic Integration Support

Dear Turbonomic Product Team, We have received strong interest from one of our enterprise customers in expanding their adoption of IBM Turbonomic across their hybrid infrastructure. However, a key blocker they are facing is the lack of native inte...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration