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Use Billing Data for Savings Widget Calculations

The Savings Widget currently bases its savings potential on CSP list prices. However, since most organizations have discounted rates per SKU, the projected savings amounts may not reflect actual cost reductions. Request is to integrate billing dat...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Allow Users to permanently dismiss the "Take a Tour" dialogs

On first use of the AIOps interface, the presentation of the "Take a Tour" dialogs on first use of a given capability - alert, resource management etc - is useful. However, customer has found that these dialogs appear over the top when launching i...
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Provide a "Dark Mode" theme for the User Interface

Heavy and regular use of the AIOps User Interface should adapt to modern UI practices and include the option of a "Dark Mode" across the product.Operations teams work 24/7 and will have preferences for display based on time-of-day as well as for u...
11 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Limit the cost data users can access to only the accounts they are responsible for, but still allow them the flexibility to create and manage views based on that restricted data.

Our goal is to limit the cost data users can access to only the accounts they are responsible for, but still allow them the flexibility to create and manage views based on that restricted data.
11 days ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Request for Numeric Event IDs in Instana

Title: Support for Numeric Event IDs in Instana Description: Currently, Instana generates event IDs as alphanumeric strings (UUID-like). While this ensures global uniqueness, it makes integration with external systems (e.g., SIEM, ServiceNow, Splu...
11 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

ability to send alerts to multiple stakeholders/end users

ability to send alerts to multiple stakeholders/end users using the e-mail alerts button or for any budget compliance alerts or anomaly alerting.
20 days ago in Cloudability 0 Submitted

more nuanced anomaly detection report

similar functionality to aws cost explorer. edit time range, more details around cost spikes by services, ability to drill down.
20 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Allow events to be cloned as a custom event

At present if someone likes a certain built-in event but wants to apply a scope to it or change the threshold they need to create the event from scratch. But you can easily add a clone button to create a new custom event, suing the bult-in event a...
21 days ago in Instana / Alert 1 Not under consideration

Email - To field displays only a single email address

Description: Currently, when multiple email addresses are configured in the Instana Email Alert Channel (To field), all recipients successfully receive the alert email.However, in the received alert, the “To” field displays only a single email add...
21 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Rightsizing recommendations for AWS Dynamo DB

Customers are looking for advice on how to optimize Dynamo DB
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration