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Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Enable the view of Plan name from IBM CSV billing file

We are looking to get the data about the instance type / family / Category to create reports to track GPU usage in IBMC via Cloudability.As much as I looked the Plan name contain this data that will enable us to create that report. Because this vi...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards 0 Future consideration

New Plug-in: Kafka Job Type and Dashboard

Kafka has become an integral part of the financial services technology stack, enabling real-time event streaming across diverse lines of business. From fraud detection to regulatory compliance, its applications are vast and impactful. However, the...
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Not under consideration

Integration of Alibaba with Cloudability

Omnicom Team would like to integrate their Alibaba cloud with Cloudability to have a better visibility of their cloud spend which spans across various Hyperscalers including Alibaba.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 3 Future consideration

Widget Creation screen filters need to be visible or editable to end users post creation of said widget

When adding a widget to a dashboard, users have the ability to select projects and teams. If they select anything besides "any portfolio" or "any team", this filter sticks to this widget forever and cannot be viewed or edited. This causes problems...
7 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Future consideration

Enabling capturing synthetic calls

We noticed (with the support of a support ticket) that the option in "Configure Synthetic Endpoints" > "Auto-Detected Health/Ping Checks" needs to be enabled in order that calls from synthetic monitors are marked as synthetic. It would be usefu...
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

Distinguish synthetic calls

In the Analytics > Calls screen it's not possible to make a distinction between synthetic calls ("GET /actuator/health" for example) and synthetic calls that are coming from the Instana synthetic monitors. It would be great to have a filter pos...
7 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 0 Future consideration

If license usage is about to exceed the limit, for example, over 80%. it should trigger an alert.

With the current licensing system, users won’t notice if the license limit has been exceeded until they try to register a new target. It would be helpful to have a feature that automatically sends a notification—via email, Slack, etc.—when license...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Alert and Incident query API to enable filtering in alignment with the User Interface

Enhance the existing Alert and Incident retrieval APIs to include additional filtering conditions Enable the API to query alerts and Incidents using the same set of filters as available in the UI. Get the count of alarms The current API has the fo...
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Planned for future release