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Integration with Chef

Potential customer is currently going through a PoV for Concert Workflows. They rely heavily on Chef for managing their On-Prem infrastructure. Asking if we can introduce a new integration with Chef for this evaluation. The Vendor in consideration...
about 1 month ago in Concert Workflows 1 Needs more information

Create a parking policy for PMC users not to start any VM more than 7 days in park my cloud

To avoid more uptime of the VM which is underutilization. If need user can revisit and extend the pause of the VM after 7 days.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1

Calculate Realized Savings using Effective Cost Basis

When we set the configuration of Cost Basis to use the Effective Cost (instead of on-demand), the Potential Savings are calculated based on Effective Cost, while the Realized Savings are calculated based on On-demand Cost. The consequence is that ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1

Continuously sending alerts (or expiring alerts) past a defined threshold to avoid overlooking.

We have encountered a critical operational challenge: When a single alert is triggered and then overlooked or ignored, there is currently no built-in capability within Instana to continuously resend or reissue that alert past a defined threshold o...
20 days ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

we need tsamp supported on redhat over OCI

we need tsamp supported on redhat over OCI We have a customer that use OCI and today and are migrating BPM platform from aix to OCI infrastructure.They use db2 and tsamp today.But we have problems to configure tsamp.
about 1 month ago in Tivoli System Automation 0 Submitted

Improve Rightsizing Preferences

** I'm using EBS as an example, but this would apply for all the services. ** Introduce the capability to customize Amazon EBS volume recommendations in Cloudability’s rightsizing preferences, allowing users to exclude specific EBS volume types (e...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Allow Zone Definition for Hosts through OTel Collector in Instana

When using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) collector to send metrics to the Instana Backend, there is currently no mechanism to define or pass the "zone" attribute for the monitored hosts. This results in all hosts being categorized as "undefined zone" w...
4 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Planned for future release

Support K8s label based views in Rightsizing.

Being able to provide users with access to only the information relevant to them is important to customers. Customers would like to be able to use K8s label based views to filter to only specific labels in containers. This would filter the list to...
6 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Submitted

Ability to use email subscriptions with Row Level security

We have a need to be able to export a report into PDF by Business Unit and email that PDF to the Business Unit owner for our Bill of IT. We have a list of emails by Business Unit and have created a report that is the exact format needed. As we hav...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Billing 0 Submitted

Ability to export list of datalink connectors

I would like the ability to export the full list of datalink connectors and the relevant summary data related to the datalink connectors. This would be helpful in making a list of datalink connectors that might need to be reviewed for different pu...
6 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted