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Delete actions, such as unnecessary snapshots and virtual NICs

I would like you to present actions to reduce waste other than VMs, Volumes, and DBs. I want to centrally manage wasted resources with Turbonomic.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

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

Plot data using variable as reference on Analytics

To make the charts (all or individual) plot data based on a variable (like POD for instance). This way, when a dashboard is created for a specific monitoring objective it would be easy to change the data by changing the variable the data is refere...
11 months ago in Instana 1 Planned for future release

Dark Mode

Instana needs a dark theme for the browser.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Planned for future release

Better unified savings reporting

Commitment reporting Optimization ROI Reliability UI Filtering Time Selection
7 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Planned for future release

Create a DL option for Anomaly Detection Alerts

As FinOps Analysts, we are receiving anomaly alerts that need to be forwarded to FinOps champions in each business unit. We aim to automate the distribution of these alerts to various stakeholders. Therefore, anomaly alerts should be filtered by b...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection / Other 1 Planned for future release

API endpoint for User Management to allow customers to configure user profile characteristics such as auto-e-mails

Currently all users have summary e-mails enabled by default and only option is for all users to receive or all users not receive. Having a n API endpoint would allow us to programatically edit user profiles to provide a better user experience.
11 months ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 1 Planned for future release

Add possibility to have longer retention periods for Logs in cold storage

Many clients have the requirement to keep logs for longer periods in a cold storage, for example 180 days. Main competitors in the Logging space do have this capability. We need to be able not only to store it but also to perform similar actions a...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Logging 1 Planned for future release

Add "Non-Disruptive" column to Action Center for On-Prem and Container actions

Today, in the Action Center for many Cloud scaling actions, we have a column highlighting whether the action is non-disruptive or not. This helps customers adopt Turbo's automation quicker, builds trust, and lowers the barriers to action execution...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 5 Planned for future release

Add ‘last seen’ date to Resource Inventory.

Problem:Right now the resource inventory has the resource state, but for terminated resources there is no way to tell when the resource was terminated. Request:To provide visibility into what time frame the resource inventory data represents and w...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 1 Planned for future release